NetSpectre is the newest speculative execution vulnerability to be disclosed and it is scary. It allows an attacker to slowly remotely access information stored in memory without running code on the machine itself
New Microchip Microsemi Adaptec SmartRAID 3162-8i RAID adapters feature 8 port SAS3 connectivity, onboard supercapacitors, and line rate controller based encryption
In our Intel Xeon Gold 5120 benchmarks and review we show why the chip achieves a new level of redundancy within the Skylake-SP SKU stack
We spotted a LSI RAID controller battery pack in one of our lab servers that became severely deformed over the years. That highlights the importance of maintaining RAID controller batteries
New Toshiba 96-Layer 4th generation BICS NAND is here. The first product with it will be the Toshiba XG6 NVMe SSD. QLC is coming from the company.
New Amazon AWS Z1d EC2 frequency optimized instances use Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with high clock speeds for the EDA, HPC, and relational database hosting markets
We show the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415 NVMe hot swap functionality in action. This is one of the first AMD EPYC 7001 series platforms to support the critical data center storage feature
We discuss how Intel and Micron announcing the imminent suspension of joint development for 3D XPoint may be good for AMD, IBM, Marvell, and others.
The new AWS R5 EC2 instances have up to 768GB and 96 vCPUs per instance, 25Gbps network bandwidth, and 3.1GHz Skylake-SP Intel Xeon Platinum all core turbo speeds. The AWS EC2 R5 instances are for in-memory analytics, and similar applications
By Q4 2018 we expect 8-core Intel Xeon E server SKUs to launch bringing twice the core count to LGA 1151 servers and workstations launched for the Intel Xeon E-2100 series