NetApp and Cisco have announced the FlexPod XCS, an automated platform for modern applications, data, and hybrid cloud services. FlexPod is composed of pre-validated storage, networking, server technologies from Cisco and NetApp. The two technology companies have been partners on the FlexPod platform evolution for over 10 years.

For the most part, we don’t report on a lot of press releases, but when Dell Technologies latest news blurb mentioned the 2011 science fiction novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline in its opening paragraph we knew that we had to take a deeper look. This announcement discusses two new solutions from Dell in

Lenovo has announced a suite of edge-to-cloud IT infrastructure solutions designed for growing businesses to overcome resource limitations, optimize for remote work, and accelerate innovation. The solution, targeting midsize businesses, includes new server, storage, and service offerings, is a complete series of easy-to-use solutions and services to help with achieving intelligent transformation and business growth.

Intel has introduced details for Agilex M-Series FPGAs to address the global shift from centralized compute clusters and data storage to a more distributed architecture. With the exponential growth of data in the cloud, at the edge, and all points in between, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) play an increasingly important role in modern applications from

KIOXIA has announced that the PM7 Series enterprise SAS SSDs is now available for customer evaluation. The PM7 Series is the company’s 2nd generation of 24G SAS SSDs that are ideal for enterprise applications and modern IT infrastructures, such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, and financial trading and analysis.

Veeam Software announced the general availability of its Software as a Service (SaaS) product Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6. This latest solution introduces the self-service restore portal and enhances cloud object storage integrations with backup copy to Amazon S3 Glacier, S3 Glacier Deep Archive, and Azure Archive. This enables users to securely backup to any

Lenovo has announced the newest generation of the powerful and highly successful ThinkStation P620 desktop professional workstation. The last-gen P620 was the best Threadripper professional platform we’ve ever seen, so those looking for another iteration (us included) will certainly be excited about this release. This single-socket platform features the newest AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000WX

NVIDIA has announced the acquisition of Tel Aviv-based software-defined storage provider Excelero. The acquisition gives NVIDIA the tools needed to expand its footprint into enterprise high-performance computing environments with a focus on storage-area networking.

Fungible announced a significant upgrade to its Fungible Storage Cluster (FSC) software with FSC 4.0, leveraging the Fungible DPU to deliver workload-centric block storage and empower data center cloudification. The Fungible Storage Cluster is an all-flash NVMe over TCP disaggregated storage platform.