February 21st, 2020 by Brian Beeler This week's podcast features an interview with Ravi Pendekanti from Dell Technologies. Ravi highlights Dell's new edge servers and an all new data center to go that is pretty sweet. If you prefer, we have a video version of the interview, complete with photos of the new gear embedded [...]
February 20th, 2020 by Alex Schuchter The next generation of the boldly named Seagate Fast SSD is here. Now the Seagate BarraCuda Fast SSD, this little square drive has similar features to its predecessor and a nearly identical design but, with an updated color scheme. Features sported by this drive include future-proof and fully reversible USB-C connectivity, [...]
February 19th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong Today AMD rolled out two new second generation EPYC processors to add more performance options so customers can meet the right performance to workload. AMD is adding yet another 64 core CPU in the 7662 as well as a new 32 core model as well with the 7532. The new [...]
February 18th, 2020 by Lyle Smith The SuperStorage 6019P-ACR12L+ is a 1U server designed for organizations that need a solution for high-density object storage, scale-out storage, Ceph/Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics. This server is highlighted by Supermicro’s X11-DDW-NT motherboard family, which features support for dual socket 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake), up [...]
February 18th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong Today, Dell Technologies announced a slew of new solutions and innovation to help their customers deal with data that is being created at the edge. The new solutions include new edge server designs, smaller modular data centers, enhanced telemetry management and a streaming analytics engine. The new Dell solutions [...]
Tweet February 14th, 2020 by Brian Beeler This week Rick Vanover stops by the Cincinnati lab to help the team upgrade to Veeam v10. v10 isn't publicly available until next week, so soak up the preview in this week's pod interview, as well as the YouTube video we have walking through the upgrade process. The team also [...]
February 14th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong The Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n-1 IoT is an incredibly small form factor workstation purpose-built for IoT workloads. Though tiny, the M90n-1 packs in 4GB of DDR4 RAM, up to an 8th Gen Intel Core i3, up to two 512GB M.2 SSDs, and lots of connectivity. Aside from wired network connectivity [...]
February 14th, 2020 by Lyle Smith The Lenovo ThinkVision P44w-10 is a massive, brilliant monitor that is designed to increase productivity of professionals that require a lot of screen real estate to do their day-to-day work. At 43.4 inches in size, this curved monitor can certainly help increase productivity in use cases like animation, diagnostic [...]
February 13th, 2020 by Alex Schuchter Western Digital released a new line of Red NAS drives in November of 2019 and among the newly launched drives a 14TB HDD was released; expanding the maximum capacity for the line’s HDDs. Purpose built for NAS system compatibility WD Red (non-pro) drives are ideal for home and small business NAS [...]
February 12th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong The Plugable TBT3-UDV Thunderbolt 3 docking station, like most of the new Thunderbolt 3 docks hitting the market, takes a new ultra-thin notebook and gives users all of the connectivity they need along with an Ethernet port for faster connection. The new dock can deliver up to 60W of power to [...]
