Xilinx & Samsung SmartSSD CSD Announced

Xilinx, Inc. has partnered with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to release the Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Drive (CSD) or Samsung SmartSSD CSD for short. This drive is stated as being the industry’s first adaptable computational storage platform providing the performance, customization, and scalability required by data-intensive applications. Xilinx will be showcasing the SmartSSD CSD at the Flash Memory Summit Virtual Conference this week. (more…)
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HPE Expands Virtual Desktop Configurations

Today, HPE announced additional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) subscription configurations through their Greenlake brand. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to manage their clouds. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to just providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis. (more…)
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Quantum StorNext 7 Announced

Today, Quantum announced that it would soon be releasing StorNext 7. The company also announced plans to introduce Quantum ATFS and expand their ActiveScale line before the end of the month. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In 2001, they sold their manufacturing division to Maxtor (which was later bought by Seagate), so they could focus on their integrated storage system business. StorNext, a software-defined file system, is their core product, but they also offer surveillance and shared storage appliances. (more…)
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