Synology DS1621+ With AMD Processor Announced

Today Synology Inc. announced yet another 6-bay DiskStation NAS with the DS1621+. This particular NAS leverages a quad-core, AMD Ryzen processor to deliver twice the processing power. This DiskStation is designed for high-performance data storage and management for SMB that need a bit more on the performance side of things. (more…)
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Zerto Data Protection Launched

Today, Zerto launched what the company is calling Zerto Data Protection (ZDP). The company is saying that they hope their ZDP feature will allow them to compete with other backup solutions on cost. Roy Golding and Ziv Kedem founded Zerto in 2009. Zerto, the company, released their first product in 2011 and is best known for their IT resilience platform, Zerto, which shares the company name. (more…)
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GIGABYTE Rolls Out PCIe 4.0 Servers

Today GIGABYTE Technology announced new rackmount and high-density severs that leverage the AMD EPYC processors. The benefits of the new CPUs are leveraged through the support for PCIe Gen 4 for all front drive bays and onboard M.2 slots. On top of that, several of the server support Broadcom Tri-mode storage adapters. The new servers all come with silicon-based hardware Root of Trust and are aimed at Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Virtualization, Business-Critical Workloads, and more. (more…)
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Canonical Introduces HA MicroK8s

Today Canoncial, the Ubuntu company, announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. MicroK8s was introduced in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine for IoT devices and workstations. HA MicroK8s come with the needed resiliency for production workload in the cloud and/or server deployments. (more…)
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