Brian recently hosted a podcast with Jason Adrian, the co-chair of the OCP storage project and the hardware lead at Azure, where they discussed the future of storage solutions. The main topic of discussion was the versatile E1.S form factor. Based on our conversation, if you aren’t excited about the promise of this technology, you

Western Digital (WD) has announced the OptiNAND flash-enhanced drive architecture at the company’s HDD Reimagine event held today. This new technology optimizes and integrates HDDs with integrated NAND (iNAND). This new class of embedded flash drives, allows customers to meet the exponential growth in data creation, both today and in the future. Let’s be clear

The general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.3 is now here, adding the latest innovations in full-stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Hybrid Cloud Platform. The new release is also highlighted by networking automation and enhanced backup, multi-cloud management, security operation features.

The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has announced the availability of IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release 1.5. Highlighted by its support for MPE, the new release will bring a range of benefits including improved latency in PMEM applications used in high-performance, enterprise, and cloud data centers.

QNAP has added to the TS-hx77XU QuTS hero NAS series with the 16-bay TS-h1677XU-RP and 24-bay TS-h2477XU-RP rackmount models. The new additions feature AMD Ryzen 7, two 10GbE ports, AES-NI encryption, several PCIe slots, and a redundant power supply. In addition, the NAS rackmounts feature the advanced ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system and offer up

Today HP Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Teradici Corporation. Teradici just joined us on our podcast to go over the expanding remote workforce and the use of PCoIP. HP states that the acquisition will enhance its Personal Systems by delivering new compute models and services tailored for hybrid

Today Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new top-loading storage solutions that leverage the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Supermicro is rolling out 60-bay and 90-bay solutions that leverage the company’s new Simply Double storage systems. The support of the new processors means that these new storage solutions can support PCIe Gen4 drives for maximum

Kasten and its K10 Platform have been around for about four years, primarily offering data protection for Kubernetes. The demand for protecting these emerging workloads was growing so fast that Veeam acquired Kasten. The net result is an increasingly integrated offering that addresses both virtualization and container data protection. Kasten keeps a rapid development cycle,

The developers of TrueNAS have come out with their own Chia pool, TruePool. This Chia Pool supports open source and is managed by a team that has worked together on the TrueNAS project for roughly a decade. TruePool charges 1% for an operator’s fee, with 25% of that supporting the TrueNAS project. So if you’re