Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesVMware moved its per-CPU licensing plan closer to competitors’ per-core licensing plans by requiring one license for CPUs with 32 cores. By Ed Scannell VMware has changed its licensing model to limit the number of cores per CPU in a move that aligns with the per-core pricing model used by many major software companies, but is expected to increase costs for customers
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHitachi storage for E Series adds two midrange block arrays based on NVMe flash technology. E590 and E790 scale to 360 TB and differ in processing performance. By Garry Kranz Hitachi Vantara moved its NVMe flash systems down market with models aimed at medium-size organizations. Hitachi expanded its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E Series lineup with 2u E590 and E790 models. The
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHitachi Vantara launched new VSP 5000 models and added storage options to its E Series. The products may help enable storage consolidation for customers. By Adam Armstrong Hitachi Vantara has expanded its storage portfolio with new Virtual Storage Platform 5000 models that dramatically speed up throughout and performance and added new storage options to its E-Series platform. The storage vendor,
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicron unveiled NVMe SSDs with seven form factors this week, all with PCIe Gen 4 performance. The new family of SSDs could take Micron deeper into the data center. By Adam Armstrong First Published: 08 Oct 2021 Micron continues its focus on the data center, as evidenced by its release of the 7400 PCIe Gen 4 family of SSDs Wednesday.
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe chipmaker says one issue for Windows 11 users is causing the L3 cache latency of its CPUs to roughly triple, slowing down latency-sensitive applications by 3-5 percent. For PC games that are commonly played for esports activities, the performance impact can be much worse: a 10-15 percent reduction. By Dylan Martin AMD is warning that its CPUs may take a
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesHere’s what you need to know about Dell Technologies’ five new PowerEdge rack and tower servers with Intel processors launched today. By Mark Haranas 5 New Dell Servers Targeting SMBs, Edge Computing After selling well over 500,000 servers last quarter, Dell Technologies is launching five new PowerEdge servers today targeting small-and-medium businesses (SMBs) and edge computing use cases. All of the new Dell
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the protocol underlying the global routing system of the internet. It manages how packets get routed from network to network through the exchange of routing and reachability information among edge routers. By John Burke BGP creates network stability by guaranteeing routers can adapt to route failures: when one path goes down, a new path is quickly
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe hyper-converged infrastructure market has seen a good deal of movement lately. While some vendors strengthened their products, others went in the opposite direction. By Dave Raffo Hyper-converged market leaders have remained constant in recent years, but technology offerings among those giants and other players are evolving. Nutanix debuted with an early hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) product that combines storage, compute and
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnterprises that need high-performance storage for AI and ML workloads can keep an eye out for new products based on the latest PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications. By Carol Sliwa Enterprise buyers in need of higher performance storage might want to start checking with vendors about their plans to support PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 technologies. The NVM Express
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesExplore the various ways NVMe technology vendors are preparing the way for organizations to transition to storage class memory in their computing environments. By Marc Staimer NVMe has taken hold in the enterprise, driven by high-performance-demanding applications, such as AI, machine learning and analytics, and their need for high-speed, low-latency access to storage media. Now, storage class memory is making inroads,
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