StorageReview Weekly Newsletter

VMware vSphere 8 with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

Of all the announcements at VMware Explore 2022 (US version), the highlight had to be the vSphere 8 support for Data Processing Units (DPUs) from NVIDIA and AMD Pensando based on servers from Dell technologies and HPE. Official support for DPUs meant VMware customers could now enjoy the benefits an accelerator could deliver.

Get details on how?NVIDIA LaunchPad can help with vSphere 8. 英伟达 VMware

AWS re:Invent 2022 Storage Service Updates for EFS, S3, Failback, and Backup Announced

AWS re:Invent 2022 opened with a slew of product announcements impacting AI/ML, compute, analytics, containers, databases, and more. This post focuses on updates to some of AWS storage services.

Read about AWS storage updates from?AWS re:Invent. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

OCP’s Hyperscale NMEe Boot SSD Specification Brings Performance, Affordability and Efficiency

There has been a lot of discussion about the issues surrounding boot drives in the hyperscale space over the past several years. While hyperscalers don’t want to spend too much on them, they need a basic minimum performance threshold among other necessary specifications.

Get the latest on?OCP's Hyperscale NVMe Boot Spec. Open Compute Project Foundation

OCP Grand Canyon Storage System – Hands On

Meta used the OCP Global Summit to take attendees through the latest storage server and JBOD called Grand Canyon, and a new single socket server referred to as Barton Springs. The design for Grand Canyon came from the demand to build a better and faster storage server.

Read more about?Meta's Journey to Grand Canyon .

EcoFlow 160W Solar Panel Review

EcoFlow sent their 160W Solar Panel to the field lab as a companion to the?RIVER 2 ?we recently reviewed. The 160-watt solar panel is a 4×40-watt portable folding solar charger for portable PowerBanks.

Read what Jordan thinks of the?EcoFlow Solar Panel. EcoFlow

New QNAP SSD Expansion Cards Now Available

QNAP has announced the QM2-2P-344A and QM2-2P-384A, the company’s newest addition to their budget-friendly QM2 PCIe Gen3 expansion card line.?

Get the details on the?QNAP SSD Expansion Cards. QNAP Systems

Proxmox Backup Server 2.3 Now Generally Available

Proxmox Backup Server Version 2.3 is now generally available. The open-source server backup solution gives enterprises an easy way to back up and restore VMs, containers, and physical hosts and supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption.?

Read the latest news on?Proxmox Backup Server.