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HP Z Workstations Launched with Intel Xeon W-2400 & W-3400 and NVIDIA RTX Ada Graphics Card

The Intel Xeon W-2400 and W-3400 processors for workstations are now available, sporting up to 56 cores, eight channels of DDR5 memory, and 112 PCIe lanes. HP has announced new workstations to support them, along with NVIDIA’s new RTX A6000 Ada generation graphics card.

Read the details on the new?HP Z Workstations. HP Z by HP

Object First Ootbi Backup Appliance for Veeam Launched

Object First Ootbi is the first backup storage appliance designed specifically for Veeam Software. Created by Veeam founders Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, Object First helps midsize enterprise organizations ransomware-proof their backups by delivering “out-of-the-box immutability” or Ootbi.

Read the latest from?Object First Ootbi Appliance. Object First

Silicon Motion SM2268XT Gen4 SSD Controller Announced

The Silicon Motion SM2268XT is the company’s latest PCIe Gen4 SSD controller solution designed for higher-speed NAND transfer rates. The new controller is optimized for current and future TLC and QLC 3D NAND flash and enables high-value SSDs for a broader range of laptop PCs, including performance, mainstream, and value-based solutions.

Read more about the news from?Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion Technology Corp.

AWS MDC?for U.S. DoD Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Announced

Like any other large organization, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) relies heavily on modern, mission-critical applications that are data-heavy and require low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field.?AWS has approached the challenge by announcing the AWS Modular Data Center (AWS MDC).?

Get more details on the?AWS MDC. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

HYCU R-Cloud Data Protection Development Platform for SaaS Unveiled

HYCU R-Cloud allows Software as a Service (SaaS) companies and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to provide backup and recovery services for their SaaS offerings. R-Cloud is a low-code, purpose-built data protection development platform for SaaS vendors to deliver secure and scalable enterprise-class backup and recovery services.

Read the news on?HYCU R-Cloud. HYCU, Inc.

IGEL COSMOS Announced

IGEL has announced the launch of IGEL COSMOS, a unified end-user computing platform to securely manage and automate the delivery of digital workspaces from any cloud. The modular architecture comprises separate but equal elements of an endpoint operating system, management and control, and cloud services to introduce or enhance apps, desktops, services, and any other form of cloud-delivered digital workspaces.

Read the news from?IGEL COSMOS. IGEL Technology

AWS EC2 M7g and R7g Instances Powered by Graviton3 Processors Announced

Amazon’s new EC2 M7g and R7g instances, the second batch of instances powered by the AWS-designed Graviton3 processors, are now available. The new instances are designed to deliver up to 25 percent better performance than the equivalent sixth-generation (M6g and R6g) instances making them the best performers in EC2.?AWS released its first Graviton3-based C7g instances for compute-intensive workloads last year.

Here's the latest on new?AWS EC2 M7g and R7g instances.

CloudCasa by Catalogic and Ondat Kubernetes Storage and Data Protection Bundle Announced

Catalogic and Ondat have partnered to deliver a Kubernetes storage and data protection bundle to provide customers with a single solution to run stateful applications on Kubernetes without worrying about availability, protection, or data management and recovery.

Read the news on the bundle from?CloudCasa and Ondat. CloudCasa | K8s Backup, DR, Migration

Podcast #116: Delete those files!

Brian tackles the concept of data deletion on this podcast and why it is essential. Brian’s guest is Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange.?Dr. Berk has a Ph.D. in AI/ML and describes himself as an “energetic technologist, entrepreneur, and animated thought leader in cyber security, driving growth through innovative SaaS solutions.

Watch this podcast of?Data Deletion!

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