Iceotope has published a study with Meta confirming the efficiency and effectiveness of chassis-level liquid cooling technology to meet the cooling requirements of high-density hard drives. The study shows that liquid cooling successfully cools the drives at a lower, more consistent temperature for fewer drive failures. It also offers a lower total cost of ownership,
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX leverages vSAN Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA) and VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu to modernize data centers and support both traditional and modern cloud-native applications. The solution offers advanced management capabilities, improved automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployment.
SK hynix has announced they are developing working samples of DDR5 Multiplexer Combined Ranks (MCR) Dual In-line Memory Modules. Dubbed the world’s fastest server DRAM, DDR5 MCR is quoted to deliver a minimum data rate of 8Gbps, making it at least 80% faster than the current 4.8Gbps DDR5 products.
NVIDIA has announced the release of AI Enterprise 3.0 to be available in December, along with a partnership with Deutsche Bank. NVIDIA AI Enterprise 3.0 will offer AI workflows for contact center intelligent virtual assistants, audio transcription, digital fingerprinting for cybersecurity, and support for over 50 NVIDIA frameworks and pre-trained models.
HPE Discover Frankfurt 2022 kicked off this week by announcing that HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise will be enhanced with a new application, analytics, and developer services. The updates to the edge-to-cloud platform will enable organizations to drive a data-first modernization strategy for production workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
While prepping a DS923+ NAS for a full review, we noticed that Synology has quietly added support for M.2 SSD volumes. This is a huge deal, as Synology previously allowed these slotted SSD drives for cache purposes only, limiting their utility. We’ve long complained about the lack of M.2 SSD volume support, hopefully, Synology will
Late last year, Seagate demonstrated the first hard drive with native NVMe support at the 2021 OCP Summit. The demo version of the HDD sported a tri-band controller that supported SATA, SAS, and NVMe protocols through a native NVMe interface without requiring a bridge. Read NVMe HDD Edges Closer to Reality for background.
Proxmox Backup Server Version 2.3 is now generally available. The open-source server backup solution gives enterprises an easy way to back up and restore VMs, containers, and physical hosts and supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption. This version brings enhancements to the web interface and tape backup features, along with a range
AWS re:Invent 2022 opened with a slew of product announcements impacting AI/ML, compute, analytics, containers, databases, and more. This post focuses on updates to some of AWS storage services.
There has been a lot of discussion about the issues surrounding boot drives in the hyperscale space over the past several years. While hyperscalers don’t want to spend too much on them, they need a basic minimum performance threshold among other necessary specifications.
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