Today, Lenovo announced an expansion of its Linux portfolio, extending its certification program that was announced in June to include ThinkPad and ThinkStations preinstalled with Canonical’s Ubuntu LTS. Previously only accessible to enterprise customers through custom orders, a full range of PCs will now be available with Ubuntu pre-installed right from Lenovo’s website. These include …
23/09/2020Today, Western Digital (WD) announced additions to its family of WD Purple storage solutions. The new additions consist of an 18TB HDD and a 1TB microSD, both due out later this year. The gold line got 18TB HDDs a few months ago as well. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since …
23/09/2020Today, MemVerge announced the general availability of their “Memory Machine” software. Like most MemVerge software, their “Memory Machine” software is intended to work with Intel Optane persistent memory to provide a software-defined memory pool. MemVerge was founded in August 2017, shortly after Intel released its Optane SSDs. MemVerge’s primary product used to be Memory-Converged Infrastructure …
23/09/2020Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to …
23/09/2020
Today NETGEAR, Inc. announced its new Managed Business Router BR200. The BR200 is designed with small to medium and remote offices in mind. The smaller to medium guys can offer their employees and customers secure access to an office intranet through a secure site-2-site Virtual Private Network (IPSec VPN).
23/09/2020With the release of newer AMD Ryzen motherboards, PCIe Gen4 SSDs followed suit and gradually started to hit the market. It was only a matter of time before Samsung made its first appearance in this category, which they’ve done today. The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, is a client SSD that features the …
22/09/2020For years, automated storage tiering has been an essential solution for enterprises looking to manage their data center footprint efficiently while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The strategy is simple: use auto-tiering algorithms and policies, and keep active data on primary storage while moving inactive data to inexpensive storage categories. In recent years, …
21/09/2020This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TrilioVault for Kubernetes now available with IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat Marketplace. SIOS AppKeeper now available in AWS Marketplace. XPG launches GAMMIX S50 Lite SSD. AWS launches T4g instance. Aerospike announces upgrades …
20/09/2020HP has been in the remote office game since the Mars rover program in 2004. While today’s remote work needs are a little more domestic by comparison, there is a new set of challenges. We all know about VDI which has been most effective for managing large groups of task workers. COVID has caused new …
19/09/2020The GIGABYTE R282-Z92 Server is a new 2U dual-socket server that leverages the 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. Being dual-socket, meaning that users can leverage up to 128 cores (64 per socket) with two EPYC CPUs. AMD EPYC processors also lend the added benefit of PCIe 4.0 devices which increase options for faster storage, FPGAs, …
18/09/2020
Today, Seagate released the Exos X18 enterprise drive. The Exos X18 is the largest Seagate Exos X HDD drive to date with a listed capacity of 18TB. Seagate has been operating since 1979. The company is one of the most widely known manufacturers of HDDs and SSDs.
17/09/2020The Synology DiskStation DS1520+ is a 5-bay NAS designed for small offices, enthusiasts, or home users looking for a data management solution. The DS1520+ is highlighted by dual internal M.2 SSD slots so users can leverage Synology’s SSD Cache technology, which will significantly improve overall system I/O and application performance. Synology’s new DiskStation also scales …
16/09/2020