Jonmichael Hands left what most consider to be a very good job at Intel, taking on the role of head of storage at Chia. Chia is a cryptocurrency that’s billed as one of the most green in the world since it leverages proof of space (PoS) rather than proof of work (PoW). The PoS model

Micron announced a shift in portfolio strategy this week and involves ceasing the development of 3D XPoint. The company stated: “Micron has now determined that there is insufficient market validation to justify the ongoing high levels of investments required to successfully commercialize 3D XPoint at scale to address the evolving memory and storage needs of

Larry O’Connor has been solving problems for creative professionals and Mac enthusiasts for over 30 years. What started out as a RAM shop for Macs has turned into a haven of storage and accessories for those who want the best. On this podcast, I talk with Larry about how it all got started and spend

HPE launched the first off-the-shelf supercomputer, Spaceborne Computer-1, to the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2017. The Spaceborne Computer-1 ran on the ISS for 651 days, near flawlessly, before returning to Earth. The big takeaway is that supercomputers can survive and function well in the harsh environment of space. On February 20, 2021, HPE

NVIDIA is known throughout the world as a GPU company. With their acquisition of Mellanox though, the lens through which NVIDIA is viewed casts a much wider perspective, not to mention the potential acquisition of ARM. NVIDIA is now taking aim at the humble NIC. With an embedded data processing unit (DPU) and even a

We’ve been covering a lot of edge use cases on the podcast and this week it’s another one, but with an AI twist. The University of Florida is working with citrus growers to fight a terrible disease called “citrus greening” that kills off their trees. Professor Yiannis Ampatzidis, with the UF Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Creative Pros are a special bunch with specific technology and storage needs. And when you pile a bunch of them together into an agency, corporate IT systems quickly get stressed. Clockwork 9 suffered this exact issue, as the agency was overworking their NAS, leading to slowdowns in work being completed. After extensive research, Creative Director

AWS may not have built the cloud, but they’ve driven more cloud adoption than anyone else since they launched S3 object storage buckets in 2006, nearly 15 years ago. Since then, AWS has listened to their customers when it comes to launching new features. In fact, 90% of anything new in AWS comes directly from

Last week Red Hat made a fundamental change to their plan with CentOS, dramatically changing both the tracking of RHEL and the end of life, which went from 2029 to 2021. CentOS is going to become CentOS Stream, which means it’s now on an upstream continual release schedule. This means CentOS is now a preview