The FreeNAS brand is being retired and replaced with TrueNAS Core along with a unified software base to speed development
HPE-Cray Shasta and Slingshot make a clean sweep of the first US DoE exascale systems. AMD Zen4 and future GPUs power El Capitan marking another big AMD win while IBM, NVIDIA, and Mellanox leave empty-handed
The Ampere Altra 80-core Arm server CPU is upon us with 128 PCIe Gen4 lanes per CPU, CCIX, and dual-socket server capabilities. We assess the impact.
The new Xilinx Alveo U25 is a 25GbE SmartNIC infused with Solarflare Onload Technology and represents a titanic business model shift for the company
The new Marvell OCTEON TX2 and Fusion CNF95xx SoCs are designed to bring general purpose Arm cores together with heavy network acceleration for 5G networks
The new Supermicro IP65 Edge Servers are designed for 5G and being mounted on telco poles to minimize real estate impact of deploying edge servers
We take apart the Edgecore AS7712-32X to show you what this 3.2Tbps 32x 100GbE bare metal switch has to offer and why it is so popular
We investigate whether an organization should rely upon service contracts for covering hard drive failures or if self-warranty options are viable
The iXsystems FreeNAS Mini E+ brings twice the core count, higher clock speeds, and more memory expansion to the lineup while the older gen is retired
The new Microsoft Azure HBv2 instances feature high-end AMD EPYC 7002 series CPUs along with Mellanox HDR Infiniband for next-gen cloud HPC