MemVerge Memory Machine Released

Today, MemVerge announced the general availability of their "Memory Machine" software. Like most MemVerge software, their "Memory Machine" software is intended to work with Intel Optane persistent memory to provide a software-defined memory pool. MemVerge was founded in August 2017, shortly after Intel released its Optane SSDs. MemVerge's primary product used to be Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) software, but it seems to have been replaced by Memory Machine, which has most of the same features. MemVerge also provides distributed memory objects (DMO) technology to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as AI, machine learning (ML), and analytics. (more…)
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WD Red Pro 16TB and 18TB HDDs Announced

Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to handle high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments. WD indicates that they are perfect for archiving and sharing use cases and are well suited for RAID array rebuilding on extended operating systems including ZFS. (more…)
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