With 2020 being all-around awful and a pandemic raging in most of the world, all the trade shows have been trying out the virtual thing with varying levels of success. KubeCon 2020 has suffered the same fate, and like other virtual shows, this one feels a bit subdued as well. Not surprising considering the interruption [...]
QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X enterprise QuTS hero NAS, both of which are highlighted by their Intel Xeon W-1250 processor (six-core 3.3 GHz, burst up to 4.7 GHz) and up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory. Built for bandwidth-heavy storage use cases as well as dynamic creative workflows [...]
Welcome to my penetration testing/software development/media editing/jack-of-all-trades lab! What started out two years ago is a crummy old Cisco switch and router, with a cheap r610, and no gigabit networking in sight (shudder), has grown to quite a decent little lab. Welcome to my penetration testing/software development/media editing/jack-of-all-trades lab! What started out two years ago [...]
VMware developers released the ESXi ARM fling, a version of ESXi that can run on devices based around ARM processors such as the Raspberry Pi 4b we are using, Nintendo Switch Consoles, and many other SBC’s. Setting up the Raspberry Pi to run ESXi is fairly quick, we covered the installation and setup of a [...]
The Corsair MP400 is a consumer-grade NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD that leverages the Gen3 interface. Because Corsair uses 3D QLC NAND with this new line of drives, they lean more towards the high capacity and cost-effective category versus drives that use other types that are solely focused on performance. This allows the MP400 to offer [...]
Dell Technologies is introducing the EXF900, a new appliance to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. Key features of this new all-flash appliance include high performance and flexible deployment. The company indicates that the object storage market is primed for a revolution based on object storage advantages, including scalability, flexibility, API-driven cloud-native architectures, and more. This [...]
Announced back at Adobe MAX back in late October, the latest addition to the company’s “Create Ecosystem” is the next-gen Z by HP and DreamColor displays. These professional displays have been redesigned with better color accuracy and performance while featuring a new ultra-thin frameless build. For this review, we are looking at HP Z27k G3, [...]
Today during KubeCon, KIOXIA announced that its popular storage software, KumoScale, has added new features to support containers and applications managed by the Kubernetes framework. The features will bring NVMe-oF performance to Kubernetes, for quite the performance bump. KIOXIA will be demonstrating the new features of KumoScale at the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America [...]
Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced that its popular A100 GPU will see a doubling of high-bandwidth memory with the unveiling of the NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU. This new GPU will be the innovation powering the new NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform. With twice the memory, the new GPU hopes to help researchers and engineers hit [...]
Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced its AI data-center-in-a-box with the NVIDIA DGX Station A100. This marks the second generation of the DGX and claims to be the world’s only petascale integrated AI workgroup server. This server comes with up to 320GB of GPU memory and can fit under a desk. Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced [...]
