December 13th, 2019 by Brian Beeler While Adam is galavanting around California, Brian, Kevin and Tom break down the most popular news including PFsense, the latest IDC converged systems tracker, the green data center, new NUC-based solutions and much more. Also there's big news about the cowboy hat, discussions of adult activities involving said cowboy [...]
December 12th, 2019 by Lyle Smith The Orico Thunderbolt 3 Aluminum Docking Station is a multi-purpose accessory designed to add expanded functionality. Due to their size, notebooks are usually limited in the amount of connectivity and functionality they can offer, so docking stations such as these are extremely handy and provide users with wide range [...]
December 11th, 2019 by Lyle Smith Lightbits Labs has announced advancements to LightOS with the first NVMe/TCP clustered storage solution. Lightbits LightOS is the company’s software solution designed to give organizations availability, flexibility and efficiency of hyperscale cloud infrastructure to on-premise data centers, which allows application teams to focus their efforts on developing new services [...]
December 10th, 2019 by Lyle Smith IGEL has announced IGEL OS Workspace Edition version 11.03, which is highlighted by advanced security capabilities like signed OS partitions that are designed to extend IGEL’s secure “chain of trust” at the device processor level. IGEL Workspace Edition is a comprehensive, software-defined endpoint that offers organizations all the essential [...]
December 9th, 2019 by Lyle Smith HPE has announced a critical update to its HPD8 firmware, which fixes a bug that results in data loss after 32,768 hours (3 years, 270 days 8 hours) of operation. Those who do not follow through with the update will require complete restoration of their drive(s) after the failure [...]
December 8th, 2019 by Guest Author I grew up during the days of dial-up and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network). If you’re old enough to know what that was, consider yourself unlucky. Back in those days, phone modems were all the rage. We had a separate phone line to handle faxes and internet, and it was [...]
December 6th, 2019 by Brian Beeler Brian, Kevin, Adam and Tom break down the most popular news since the last podcast from Zerto, Dell EMC, HP, Intel, Seagate and Proxmox. Brian provides a cowboy hat update and a rant about Hertz car rentals. Kevin updates the lab status including Dell EMC, Faction, Qumulo and Formulus Black. Baby [...]
December 5th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong Our News Bits is a roundup that typically covers news pieces that are just small in content, not in impact. This gives content room to breathe even if it comes in less than what we normally cover. This week AWS re:Invent 2019 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. While we [...]
December 4th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong At AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas, Veeam launched a new AWS-native Backup and recovery solution that they state is cost-effective and secure, and specifically designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) protection. This new service will be exclusively available through AWS Marketplace. Veeam will be demonstrating this [...]
December 4th, 2019 by Lyle Smith Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has announced version 6.1 of Proxmox VE (PVE), the company’s open-source virtualization management platform. Based on Debian Buster 10.2 and a 5.3 Linux kernel, PVE 6.1 features the latest updates to virtual environment open-source technologies, including QEMU 4.1.1, LXC 3.2, Ceph Nautilus 14.2.4.1, Corosync 3.0, [...]
