NetApp AFF customers are getting the help needed to cost-effectively future-proof on-premises environments with NetApp Advance, a new portfolio of programs and guarantees to make it easier to manage storage investment and avoid sporadic capital expenditures delivering hybrid cloud flexibility and efficiency.

NetApp announced the AFF C-Series family of all-flash QLC-based storage options that offer lower-cost, all-flash storage and the AFF A150 entry-level storage system in the AFF A-Series family of all-flash systems. The AFF C-Series delivers high-capacity flash performance in a cost-effective, efficient smaller footprint.

Pure Storage has released Purity//FB 4.1 for FlashBlade, Pure’s unified fast file and object unstructured data platform. The new version provides FlashBlade customers with improved performance, security, and flexibility.

We recently reviewed AMD’s 4th generation server processor, commonly referred to as AMD EPYC Genoa. While we saw impressive performance out of the box, more tuning has led to even better results, culminating in our recent chart-topping run of y-cruncher, which is a CPU-intensive benchmark that calculates the decimal places of Pi out to billions

Storing video files can quickly eat through storage capacity, especially for high-resolution environments. The impact on local storage can be overwhelming just trying to manage the ever-increasing amount of video captured today. Wasabi Technologies have introduced Wasabi Surveillance Cloud, the first-of-its-kind solution to enable organizations to offload video surveillance footage directly from the local storage

At VMware Explore last August, Dell coyly pre-announced a new rugged version of their popular VxRail appliances with a dedicated hardware witness. The thing was, at the time, Dell didn’t actually offer the server that was loosely described in the launch. The PowerEdge team solved that problem a few weeks later, dropping the XR4000 platform.

Arcserve has announced the release of Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) 9.0. This update is designed to provide robust protection for all types of workloads. It offers a range of features including complete data protection, Sophos cybersecurity protection, immutable storage, tape backup integration, and scalable onsite or offsite business continuity.

Dell PowerScale has launched OneFS 9.5, which brings an array of new security features and functionality to keep unstructured data and workloads more secure. Dell also delivers significant performance gains to the all-flash F600 and F900 PowerScale nodes.

QNAP has announced the TS-1655, a tower-form factor NAS that can hold twelve 3.5-inch hard drives and four 2.5-inch solid-state drives. Highlighted by its hybrid storage architecture, the TS-1655 features 8-core computing power, 2.5GbE network connectivity, and PCIe expansion. It is intended for use in business environments for file sharing, collaboration, backup, disaster recovery, and