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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…)

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…)

AWS has announced S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers and several new storage features and updates as a part of the second-ever AWS Storage Day. The updates aim to lower customers' costs and improve performance, management, and integration for several AWS storage services. These services include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon, Amazon FSx for Lustre and Windows File Server, Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), AWS Transfer Family, AWS DataSync, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Backup, and the AWS Snow Family. (more…)

The new Asus ZenBook 14 is priced in India at Rs. 82,990. The laptop is made out of diamond-cut aluminum alloy and has an ErgoLift hinge that automatically lifts the laptop slightly when opened, which brings the keyboard to an optimum typing angle.

Mi Wireless Mouse Lite has been launched in China by Xiaomi with 2.4GHz wireless transmission technology. The wireless mouse includes a receiver that has a USB Type-A port. Mi Wireless Mouse Lite price has been set at CNY 39 (roughly Rs. 400).

The Delhi High Court sought Amazon's response on a plea by Future Retail alleging that the e-commerce major was interfering in its deal with Reliance Retail on the basis of an interim order by a Singapore arbitrator.

Google Chrome is reportedly getting a new feature that prevents links from sending users to malicious sites while being opened in a new tab. In this attack, the new tab could load a legitimate page, while your old tab was hijacked and sent to a malicious page.

Netflix is testing a new TV channel-like offering called Netflix Direct in France that will have curated content pre-selected and streamed just like a regular television channel. The offering could eventually roll out globally as well.

Linksys E5600 WiFi 5 Router has been launched in India. Its specifications are impressive for the price with dual-band WiFi support, a coverage area of up to 1,000 square feet, and connectivity for 10+ devices. The router debuted in Indonesia last month.

PlayStation 4 can act as a remote screen for your PlayStation 5, Sony has announced, days ahead of the launch of its next-gen console. It will do so with the help of a new PS5 Remote Play app that is now available on the PS4 home screen in all markets.