While Brian and Kevin were in Denver working with Quantum, Dave Russell, VP Enterprise Strategy Veeam Software, drove down from Boulder to sit with Brian for a chat about Veeam and Quantum tape backup solutions. Dave and Brian have known each other for a few years and the conversation was relaxed and candid. They talked

Although not a consumable product, PCI-Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the release of the PCIe 6.0 specification. Brian hosts Al Yanes who is the President and Chairman of the PCI-SIG and a long-time IBMer. Al is focused on the IO piece of the technology and probably knows more about PCIe than most.

Brian invites Allyn Malventano to join him in the lab for an often candid discussion of SSD technology, specifically PCIe Gen 5.0. Allyn is, as he puts it, a jack-of-all-trades-storage, Storage Technical Analyst. Although Allyn works for Intel, he is tasked with understanding all vendor equipment related to storage and servers.

Supermicro had one of the largest and most active booths at the recent Supercomputing show in St. Louis. Their effort was spearheaded by the new Universal GPU server launched at the event. Supermicro was also showing off liquid cooling solutions, Supercloud Composer, BigTwin, Blade Chassis and so much more. My favorite thing at the booth

Less than two weeks ago, NVIDIA GA’d LaunchPad, their free-to-use AI playground. With LaunchPad, customers and prospects alike can get hands-on with a complete, and well-appointed, rig thanks to Equinix, VMware, and of course NVIDIA. Because LaunchPad runs on an easy-to-access vSphere client, it’s simple for IT professionals to pick up and go. For AI

IGEL just hosted a series of events dubbed Disrupt Unite, across the US and Europe. In-person events are exceedingly rare these days, but IGEL wants to be aggressive and part of their strategy is getting back out in front of their partners and customers. From my experience it worked out well for IGEL, I hit

PCIe Gen5 is coming along at a rapid pace, we should see it in enterprise systems next year. From a storage perspective, this means a theoretical doubling of performance again. The data rate specification for PCIe Gen5 at 32Gb/s is twice the lane speed of PCIe Gen4 at 16Gb/s. How that manifests still remains to

Microsoft’s Azure Stack HCI offering has grown up a lot in the last year. We’ve looked at the solution a few times both from Dell and DataON. In fact, we just posted a review of DataON’s AZS-6224 Integrated Systems. We gave the solution an Editor’s Choice Award again. The new 3rd Gen Xeon CPUs, Gen4

We’ve worked with DataON a good deal in the past around their Azure Stack HCI offerings. They’ve done some great work with their Intel platforms and they’ve been able to take advantage of the entire ecosystem, including Intel servers, Optane storage, TLC SSDs, and even QLC SSDs for a low-cost data tier. Now, with new