FibreChannel Still Winning in the Data Center

Thanks to?Solidigm?for sponsoring this week's newsletter. Created through the sale of Intel's NAND and SSD business to SK hynix,?Solidigm is driving industry-leading innovation?across client, cloud, and enterprise storage.

Innovation and Reliability Make Fibre Channel the Choice for Data Center SANs

Large data centers are packed with servers, storage, switches, and various other hardware, trying to keep up with the latest technology trends. Of all the changes occurring within the data center, one technology continues to be a go-to for storage connectivity. Fibre Channel has been a mainstay in the data center for many years based on reliability and security.

Read why?Fibre Channel is still a first pick for data center SANs. 迈威迩

We Set a y-cruncher Record Benchmark with AMD EPYC Genoa

We recently reviewed AMD’s 4th generation server processor, commonly referred to as?AMD EPYC Genoa. While we saw impressive performance out of the box, more tuning has led to even better results, culminating in our recent chart-topping run of y-cruncher, which is a CPU-intensive benchmark that calculates the decimal places of Pi out to billions or even trillions of digits.

Get the details of the?y-cruncher performance results. AMD

HP Z32k G3 4K USB-C Display Review

The HP Z32k G3 4K USB-C Display is a new 32″ monitor that offers a stunning visual experience using an IPS Black panel that delivers twice the contrast of traditional IPS monitors. This technology is able to produce deeper shadows and richer hues while maintaining the wide viewing angles IPS panels are known for.

Read the review for the?HP Z32K G3 4K Display. HP

WD Red Pro 22TB Review

The WD Red Pro drives are created specifically for medium or large-scale business customers, supporting up to 24-bay NAS systems and built to handle heavy workloads in 24×7 environments. The WD Red Pro drives are perfect for archiving, sharing, and rebuilding RAID arrays on extended operating systems like ZFS or other file systems.

Read how the?WD Red Pro 22TB?fared in this review. Western Digital

Lenovo and WEKA Collaborate to Accelerate Next-Gen AI and Analytics

Lenovo and WEKA have announced a global agreement focused on solutions for next-generation data management architectures and performance-intensive workloads. The solutions will accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics for high-performance workloads such as finance, genomics, life science, and media and entertainment applications, speeding time to insights while reducing costs.

Get the latest on the?Lenovo and WEKA Collaboration. Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group WEKA

NetApp High-Capacity, Low-Cost Flash Storage Announced

NetApp announced the AFF C-Series family of all-flash QLC-based storage options that offer lower-cost, all-flash storage and the AFF A150 entry-level storage system in the AFF A-Series family of all-flash systems. The AFF C-Series delivers high-capacity flash performance in a cost-effective, efficient smaller footprint,

Read the news for the?NetApp AFF C-Series and AFF A150.

New Portfolio of Programs and Guarantees With NetApp Advance

NetApp AFF customers are getting the help needed to cost-effectively future-proof on-premises environments with NetApp Advance, a new portfolio of programs and guarantees to make it easier to manage storage investment and avoid sporadic capital expenditures delivering hybrid cloud flexibility and efficiency.

Read the news for?NetApp Advance. NetApp

Pure Storage Purity//FB 4.1 Update Released

Pure Storage has released Purity//FB 4.1 for FlashBlade, Pure’s unified fast file and object unstructured data platform. The new version provides FlashBlade customers with improved performance, security, and flexibility.

Read what is in the?Pure Storage Purity//FB 4.1?release. Pure Storage

Wasabi Surveillance Cloud for Offloading Video Surveillance Footage Introduced

Storing video files can quickly eat through storage capacity, especially for high-resolution environments. The impact on local storage can be overwhelming just trying to manage the ever-increasing amount of video captured today. Wasabi Technologies have introduced Wasabi Surveillance Cloud, the first-of-its-kind solution to enable organizations to offload video surveillance footage directly from the local storage environment to the cloud without running out of capacity.

Read more for details on?Wasabi's Surveillance Cloud offering. Wasabi Technologies

VergeIO Adds Site Manager and VergeOS Edge Edition with Atria Release

VergeIO announced VergeOS Atria, its latest data center operating system release. This new release allows organizations to add edge to their infrastructure with a mesh-based management capability that enables remote monitoring and operation of edge locations.?

Read more news from?VergeIO about the Atria release. Verge.io

Social Media Highlights

• My team may have lost their minds, but Kevin and Jordan spent half a day in the sub-freezing temps, making a mobile data center in the back of a Toyota Tacoma. The takeaway? The guys set a new y-cruncher world record! Liquid cooling tech has nothing on a cold Cincinnati winter day.
• Pure Storage FlashBlade//S is a modular architecture that offers high-performance levels and capacity optimization.
• Loving these drives but can’t wait for the 61TB drop.