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Caitlin Gordon joins Brian on this podcast to talk all things Dell EMC PowerStore with a little Brady/Gronk mixed in. PowerStore is an entirely new platform for Dell EMC that is intended to take over as the lead product in the all-flash midmarket space. The clean sheet design allowed Dell EMC to take the best of their existing lines like XtremIO and SC Storage to create a platform that is actually quite unique. PowerStore scales both up and out, and has the ability to run apps natively on the box, which adds a little flair of HCI to the equation. (more…)

Today, StorCentric released the Nexsan E-Series 32F storage appliance. StorCentric was founded in August 2018. In the less than two years it has existed, it has gobbled up four storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that they would be acquiring storage companies Drobo and Nexsan. Soon afterwards, in June 2019, it bought Retrospect, a data backup vendor. Most recently, in July of last year, StorCentric purchased Vexeta. (more…)

Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced some of their planned enhancements for their HCI lineup. Second generation AMD EPYC CPUs are expected to be available as a shipping option for HPE’s SimpliVity 325 Gen10 1U servers later this month. In addition, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, a disaggregated HCI platform released last year, is now available through HPE Greenlake. However, the full set of planned features for dHCI through Greenlake won’t be available until later this year. (more…)

The GIGABYTE R181-2A0 is a 1U server built around the second generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The second gen Xeon CPUs bring their set of benefits to the server that contain the usual suspects of Optane DC Memory support, higher CPU frequencies and the performance that can come with that, faster DDR4 speed, and Intel Deep Learning Boost. The server is super flexible and is aimed toward an application connected to shared storage, or perhaps HPC use cases. (more…)

A couple of days ago at Cisco Live, Cisco, in conjunction with Schneider, presented more details of the new enclosure targeting Micro Data Center solutions, the NetShelter WX 6U Wall Mount enclosure. With this joint product, these two tech giants seek to overcome new IT challenges due to the rise of edge computing. Significant challenges like delivering enhanced digital services to customers, and collect and process large amounts of data being generated outside of the data center. Cisco and Schneider Electric have a 15-year history of partnership that continues to grow stronger as they work together to address unique challenges of this new realm known as edge computing. (more…)

The Razer Seiren Elite is great at what it does. But what it does is quite limited compared to its multi-polar-pattern contemporaries, several of which are priced lower.

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Thanks to a few patent filings that have surfaced over the last two years, we’ve had an idea that Sony’s been tinkering with finger-tracking technology for a line of new VR motion controllers. It’s still unclear whether these controllers are intended to be a successor to PlayStation Move or part of the kit for the…Read more...

More than two years later, the battle between ex-Google engineer James Damore and the company is over, although we won’t know much about how it ended. Earlier this week, Damore and three other men asked a California court to dismiss the lawsuit, which claimed that the company discriminated against conservative white…Read more...

Patch notes incoming. Read more...