Microsoft Project Denali is a potential game-changer for flash storage at the scale Azure operates at. The company outlined how and why this is moving into production this year at OCP Summit 2018
Our Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TLN2F motherboard review with an Intel Xeon D-2123IT onboard. We also have some performance benchmarks, power consumption details and a comparison to other embedded platforms
Facebook shows off and donates its 100GbE central switching design. The Facebook Fabric Aggregator is a scalable architecture to handle massive traffic. It is also calling for the end of pluggable optics with the 400GbE generation
Just in time for OCP Summit 2018, Toshiba released new SSDs the Toshiba XD5, HK6-DC and CD5 and its KumoScale NVMeoF solutions.
New Marvell NVMe switches provide functionality to the NVMe domain that we have been lacking such as the ability to transparently RAID NVMe SSDs for more performance or redundancy
AMD confirms that the CTS-Labs vulnerabilities are real, but they require low-level admin access that means security has already been completely compromised before launching the attacks
We found a new Intel Data Center Optane m.2 at OCP Summit 2018, perhaps this will be an Intel DC P4801X or P4601X when it is publicly launched
Mellanox Spectrum switches and ConnectX adapters now support Microsoft Azure SONiC at OCP Summit 2018 showing the power of open SDN solutions
The Gigabyte ThunderXStation uses up to two Cavium ThunderX2 32 core 128 thread CPUs with up to 8x DDR4 RDIMMs per CPU to speed development in a deskside 4U tower workstation format
The Cavium Packet Trakker technology allows low-level hardware enabled telemetry data to be collected for Cavium's XPliant switches enabling many open networking vendors