February 11th, 2020 by Lyle Smith Western Digital SSD Dashboard is used to manage the company’s drives (which includes SanDisk products), featuring useful disk information, ways to optimize and sanitize/clean your SSD, and easy point-and-click firmware updates. At first glance, we noticed that the interface has a much more modern look than most other SSD [...]
February 9th, 2020 by Lyle Smith HPE has announced the ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus, a powerful entry-level server in an ultra micro tower form factor. Organizations can customize the Gen10 Plus for on-premises, hybrid cloud or workloads that need datacenter performance. The server also features the latest Intel Xeon E and Pentium processors with 4x 1GbE onboard [...]
February 7th, 2020 by Brian Beeler In this week's podcast we debut our new interview segment, starting with David Lundell from Intel’s' Client SSD division. David updates us on the momentum of QLC SSDs in the end user space and talks a little but about what to expect with 144-layer QLC SSDs later this year. [...]
February 6th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong Nexan, part of the StorCentric family, released its new E-Series 18F (E18F) storage platform. The E18F leverages quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology that should allow for better performance than HDDs while providing a cost-effective flash method for workloads. Nexsan also announced that it was adding RoCE and private blockchain [...]
February 6th, 2020 by Lyle Smith QNAP Systems has announced the ES2486dc 24-drive bay all-flash storage solution, the newest addition new to the company’s enterprise ZFS NAS series. Designed to fulfill mission-critical file servers, virtualization servers, and commercial cloud applications, the new ES2486dc is QNAP’s first high-availability NAS that features all-flash arrays and is highlighted [...]
February 5th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong Today at the Perform 2020 conference, Dynatrace announced the next generation of its Infrastructure Monitoring module in its all-in-one Software Intelligence Platform. The latest generation platform will include upgrades such as enhanced AI, expanded out-of-the-box observability and the ability to create custom metrics from log events. The company has [...]
February 5th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong This week, VMware announced updates to its per-CPU pricing model. VMware has gone from a pricing per CPU to a pricing per 32 cores, or an additional license for CPUs that are over 32 cores. This seems to put a cost disadvantage for newer processors that have up to [...]
February 4th, 2020 by Adam Armstrong Today DataCore Software announced that it has integrated its SANsymphony software-defined storage platform with Veeam Software’s Universal Storage API Plug-In. According to the two companies, this integration will enable customers of Veeam Software Backup and Replication can take snapshots and backups of VMware data stores residing on SANsymphony virtual [...]
February 3rd, 2020 by Lyle Smith Quantum has announced an agreement with Western Digital Technologies to acquire its ActiveScale object storage business product line. WD offers a range of products under the ActiveScale name, including ActiveScale P100 appliance and the ActiveScale X100 hybrid cloud solution. This acquisition also comes with WD’s object storage software and [...]
February 2nd, 2020 by Lyle Smith Intel consistently releases firmware updates to their SSDs to correct issues that may arise with operation, and perhaps more importantly for consumers, to occasionally deliver even greater performance and reliability to their SSDs. Intel has an advantage in the space by engineering some of their components in-house such as [...]
