At IDF 2016 ASRock Rack is showing off its Knights Landing system, the ASRock Rack 2U4N-F X200 which combines four X200 Xeon Phi nodes into a 2U chassis
OpenSSL 1.1.0 gets a release date: August 25, 2016. We have been awaiting this new version for months to use in our testing
We now have details on the Intel Rack Scale Design as the company has released a design document and code publicly for collaboration
We review the QCT QuantaMesh T3048-LY8 which is our 10Gb SFP+ / 40Gb QSFP+ lab switch for the STH data center lab. Our switch now has over 250 days uptime
We explore how Avago's purchase of PLX has slowed adoption of NVMe based storage architectures due to aggressive pricing and discounting practices
HPE has gone a step further than the OEM agreement inked in February 2016 and acquires SGI for $275M in a deal that we have been expecting for some time.
SMART Modular announced NVDIMM-N DIMMs with a 32GB capacity. This doubles the capacity of the company's previous top-end models.
Come see STH at Flash Memory Summit. We will have a review server to check out in person and that will be available via DemoEval after the show
There is a new 4x m.2 SSD on a PCIe 3.0 x16 add-in card in town: the Seagate Nytro XP7200 allows for up to 10GB/s transfer speeds
Seagate shows off a 60TB SSD at FMS 2016 which can fit up to 5.4PB in a 4U chassis using 90-bay SAS3 JBODs