News is making the rounds about an Intel CPU bug and the KPTI workaround that addresses the kernel page table vulnerability that is undergoing urgent OS patching. We provide our take.
We present a case as to why you should use ZFS compression on your storage servers as it provides tangible benefits even at a relatively low performance impact. In some cases, it can improve performance.
We have our Linux benchmarks and review of dual AMD EPYC 7301 processors and a comparison to Intel Xeon Silver and Gold CPUs
The new Broadcom Tomahawk 3 switch chip family supports up to 12.8Tbps of throughput for next-gen SDN 100GbE, 200GbE and 400GbE switches
If you want to go 10GbE for the price of 1GbE, the Quanta LB6M is the best option right now. Flash it with Brocade TurboIron software for something special
The Intel Xeon Phi x205 series Knights Mill has been launched with little fanfare targeting existing HPC and supercomputing clusters
Intel has a new high-performance FPGA solution. The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA integrates HBM2 for up to 512GB per second of memory bandwidth
The Synology FlashStation FS1018 is a 12-bay Broadwell-DE based all-flash desktop NAS with virtualization capabilities built-in
Intel just signaled that there are larger 960GB and 1.5TB Intel Optane 900p NVMe SSDs on the horizon in add-in card form factors
FreeNAS 11.1 brings incremental features including better hardware support. More importantly, it brings back preliminary Docker support