Micron Technology has announced they are shipping the new Micron 5400, the world’s first 176-layer NAND SATA SSDs for data centers, available in both 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors. The Micron 5400 allows data center operators to install new servers (or upgrade existing ones) while continuing to use the SATA interface and provides a viable

Oracle has introduced a lower entry point for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region and a preview of Compute Cloud@Customer services. OCI Dedicated Regions delivers the full public cloud to customer data centers with a new, smaller footprint and lower price. The new services help customers meet strict latency, data residency, and data sovereignty requirements.

Dell Technologies has introduced Dell Validated Designs for Analytics – Data Lakehouse enabling companies to combine both data lakes and data warehouses resulting in data quality, performance, security, and governance for all data types with self-service on-demand.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a recent collaboration with Axiom Space. Together, they are developing a more efficient way to analyze data from the Axiom Mission 1 (known as the Ax-1, the first all-private mission to the ISS) via Amazon’s AWS Snowcone SSD. Ax-1 is the first of several private space missions to ISS

Dell has announced the general availability of DDOS 7.9 for PowerProtect DD series appliances, its second OS release of the year. The new DDOS 7.9 is highlighted by the addition of Smart Scale, a new feature for PowerProtect appliances, and improvements to Dell’s PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (the company’s software-defined appliance), for in-cloud deployments. Dell

Retrospect has announced Retrospect Cloud Storage, a low-cost, high-availability (HA) cloud storage service delivered across 13 global data centers. Integrated with Retrospect Backup, the single subscription service offers businesses complete ransomware protection and a detection solution that encompasses on-premises and cloud protection.

Micron has announced additions to its embedded product portfolio and ecosystem partnerships focused solutions optimized for complex memory and storage demands at the intelligent edge. Specifically, Micron is now customer-sampling the 1.5TB i400 microSD card, which is dubbed the world’s highest-capacity microSD.

One of the lesser-known products Mellanox was working on before the NVIDIA acquisition was a data processing unit (DPU) dubbed BlueField. The pitch six years ago is similar to the one today, giving storage (and now accelerators) direct access to the network without traditional x86 architecture in the way. After all, CPUs are better used

iXsystems announced the availability of the second release of TrueNAS SCALE for scale-out storage and open hyper-convergence. TrueNAS SCALE features High Availability (HA) and support for SMB clustering, and, with new functionality in TrueCommand, wizards are available to make it easy to create SMB clusters. Built on Linux, TrueNAS SCALE supports Docker Containers, Kubernetes, KVM,