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  3. wesley9946 started following Compatible RAID cards Dell Precision 490
  4. wesley9946
    Hi there, Do you know what RAID cards are compatible with the Dell Precision 490? It's RAID card just broke (Dell PERC SAS5, model UCS-51) and I want to look for something better than that card. Kind regards, wesley9946
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  6. Adam_a
    HP’s new line-up is also highlighted by its protection against evolving malware threats with self-healing, hardware-enforced, and manageable security solutions including HP Sure Sense, HP Sure View Gen3, HP Privacy Camera, HP Sure Start for AMD, and HP Sure Click. Moreover, the HP EliteBook 735 G6 and HP EliteBook 745 G6 offer collaboration functionality, featuring HP Noise Cancellation, an integrated world-facing microphone with top-firing speakers, and collaboration keyboard keys. HP Announces New EliteBooks & Mobile Thin Client
  7. Brian
    This is useful input...we're still evolving the way these thin client and small system reviews get done.
  8. Adam_a
    Parallels indicates the following new and key features of version 17: Session Pre-Launch: Uses machine learning to map users’ computing habits, applications used and login time, enabling it to pre-launch everything for increased productivity. Google Authenticator: This will provide an additional layer of security using a time-based one-time password. Granular Permissions for Administrators: IT administrators can configure specific permissions to different administrators and delegate control of Parallels RAS objects, including RAS infrastructure components, Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), and session management. Windows Server 2019 Support: This allows Parallels RAS to leverage the advanced features of the latest version of Microsoft RDS and Hyper-V. Web-based Helpdesk Console: This gives administrators and delegated admins access to manage RDSH sessions, VDI and applications. REST API: This new API means easier integration with scheduling and workflow applications, alongside the existing PowerShell API, which enables larger enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and SPs to quickly integrate Parallels RAS into their ecosystem. Improved VDI Security: Parallels RAS now prevents unwanted access to VDI by dynamically managing users' remote access rights as required, enabling remote access permissions during login and revoking permissions during logoff. Simplified VDI and RDSH Deployment: IT admins can now easily manage, rapidly deploy and quickly scale out their end-user computing (EUC) environment with the improved management capabilities of Parallels RAS for larger deployments. Additionally, version 17 supports Scale Computing's KVM-based hypervisor, HC3 Extended HTML5 White-Labeling Capabilities: Expanded white-labeling options for the Parallels RAS HTML5 Client enable SPs and enterprises to easily implement specific branding requirements for customers, such as color, logo, language and more. New Reporting and Monitoring Capabilities: New reports related to application usage and gateway sessions can be made available for managers, business owners and tenants to consume. In addition, administrators can now create and view their own custom reports, improving day-to-day administration and management efficiencies. Parallels RAS 17 Released
  9. Adam_a
    The public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market has been growing rapidly over the last few years with no end in sight. The S3 API is more or less seen as the de facto standard for cloud storage and the common language for integrating on-premises and cloud storage. Cloudian is working with VMware to capitalize on these two phenomena with its new object cloud storage solution. The new solution allows customers to start off where they need and grow over time. The solution has multi-tenant resource pooling, integrated management tools such as billing and quality of service controls, data encryption and Write Once, Read Many (WORM) for security and compliance, and geo-distribution for easily managing storage across multiple data centers. Cloudian Announces Object Storage for VMware vCloud Director
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  11. Adam_a
    DataDirect Networks (DDN) EXA5 is the next generation of their parallel file system solution, EXAScaler. According to the company, EXA5 will come in a variety of options, including both on-premise or through either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud. Five models have been revealed so far, ranging from HDD based to full flash with hybrid configurations in between. All models will run DDN’s Lustre 2.12. EXA5 introduces several new data management and integrity file system features. Stratagem is a data orchestration engine that gives users data residency controls using policy-based placement. Hot Pools intelligently moves data between high-performance flash and large capacity disk. EXA5 will also sport a native T10DIF implementation for end-to-end data protection as well as KMIP and FIPS. With this next generation of platforms, DDN is also expanding the integration with their DDN Insight tool that provides real-time visibility into software and appliances. DDN Insight sorts running jobs by metadata activity and throughput operations to help identify problem jobs. DDN EXA5 Unveiled At ISC High Performance Conference
  12. Adam_a
    The first announcement from Dell at the conference was that one of their divisions, Dell EMC, has added Deep Learning with Intel to its portfolio of products that it calls Ready Solutions for AI. Dell EMC’s Ready Solutions for AI is a set of standardized infrastructure stacks for machine learning and deep learning. Deep Learning with Intel includes all the hardware, software, and services customers need to get up and running quickly. The equipment is a scale-out cluster consisting of a single Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd master/login node and 16 Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 dense compute servers in four C6000 chassis. Each compute node is interconnected with both a 1 gigabit Ethernet connection for access to the external network and Internet and a 10 gigabit Ethernet connection for internal traffic and data movement. On the software side, Dell EMC has integrated and validated Intel's Nauta platform. Nauta uses Kubernetes and Docker to provide a multi-user, distributed deep learning environment. Dell Announcements From The ISC High Performance Conference
  13. Adam_a
    With the new update, WekaIO thinks it can provide secure multi-tenant environments even for applications running NFS or SMB. The new security enhancements will help ensure critical data is kept safe by providing encryption at rest and in-flight across the network. The update will also support authenticated mounts to prevent a rogue application from accessing the storage system; and PKEY multi-tenancy on InfiniBand networks. As part of the security updates, WekaIO is integrating their directory services management with its Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory. They will also support Access Control List (ACLs) with multi-protocol interoperability between SMB, NFS and POSIX; and the ability to create multiple file systems for multi-tenant isolation. Customers will now have the ability to set User Quotas for multi-user environments. WekaIO Updates Software Platform
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  16. continuum
    Your video benchmarks would be much, much more useful with CODEC and bitrate? Emphasis mine. Given that this is a system review, I was surprised you didn't include any benchmarks to back up the gaming or audio claims made-- no gaming benchmarks/comparisons to other systems, no even basic audio benchmarks/measurements of things like DPC latency? And video encoding wasn't tested, only decoding? Also for an office system, noise, while not critical, might deserve some observations, especially under heavy load doing the gaming or video and audio mentioned? I realize this is StorageReview and not MotherboardReview.
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  19. Brian
    Based on the performance of the benchmarks and the ad-hock testing that we performed on the system we feel that it would make a very good mid-range system for a demanding office user that uses typical office applications, does demanding web browsing, and plays streaming videos. The CPU and GPU in the system would work well as mid-range gaming or video and audio system. It should be noted that systems Type-C port gives this system the ability to work with eGFX enclosures. Intel NUC 8 Mainstream Kit (NUC8i7BEH) Review
  20. Brian
    Kingston is putting together some pretty good drives in their SATA family. Nice to see...what should be relatively easy apparently is not.
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    The DC500M is one of Kingston's newest SATA SSD offerings designed for enterprises require greater write-performance generally found in a mixed-use workload environment. Available in capacities ranging from 480GB to 3.84TB, the DC500M features 3D TLC NAND, AES 256-bit Encryption and strict QoS requirements. It also has built-in ECC data integrity protection to safeguard against data corruption for end-to-end data protection, and on-board power loss protection during power failures via power capacitors and firmware. Kingston quotes an endurance figure of 9,110TBW for the 3.84TB model, sequential speeds up to 555MB/s read and 520MB/s write, and throughput going as high as 98,000 IOPS read and 75,000 IOPS write. Kingston DC500M Enterprise SSD Review
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    In the Lab: Upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7

    Vin V (VinnyVavoom) replied to Kevin OBrien's topic in Storage News & Reviews

    Post ended up in wrong thread, just noticed. Deleting.
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  27. Adam_a
    TrueCommand uses iXsystems’ TrueNAS API set and is thus described by the company as a “central web-based command post” for admins to manage and monitor all TrueNAS systems on a network and their organization’s data, both in real time and across sites. Users will also be able to share access to alerts, reports, and control of the TrueNAS systems based on admin permissions. iXsystems TrueCommand 1.0 Released
  28. Adam_a
    Running the bleeding edge of software has its advantages and its disadvantages. I have found that running beta software in my home lab to be useful in testing client solutions, that being said I work with IT for a living and can generally spend the time to fix problems when they arise. It's ultimately a gamble, but in this case I've enjoyed the new features with few headaches along the way. QNAP has done well to continually add to their QTS platform and the associated extra bundles. How to Install QNAP QTS 4.4.1 and Hybrid Backup Sync 3 Betas
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  30. Adam_a
    According to IDC, data will begin being generated at a rate of 103 zettabytes a year by 2023. Those numbers may go up before then. Data centers today leverage general-purpose architectures that are not up to the task of the coming data tsunami. Much of the data being generated or about to be is from video, IoT, Edge, and surveillance, all of which is sequential in nature and can be zoned into large chunks for better organizing and analyzing. This zoning of data can lead to better performance as well as lower TCO. Western Digital Launches Zoned Storage Initiative
  31. Adam_a
    The Asigra FreeNAS solution also features a signature-less malware detection engine that identifies and quarantines unauthorized or malicious embedded code from penetrating backup and replication streams. It constantly scans all backed-up data so it can automatically prevent ransomware attacks from impacting the backup and recovery processes. Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved Plug-in for iXsystems’ FreeNAS Announced
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    Of the new mobile solutions, the 15-inch ThinkPad P53 is their most powerful. Highlighted by NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 GPU with RT and Tensor cores, the ThinkPad P53 allows engineers, architects and designers to access workflows that were normally carried out by a 17” mobile workstation. It also features Intel Xeon and 9th Gen Core class CPUs with up to eight cores (including the Core i9), up to 128GB of memory, and 6TB of storage. Lenovo Next Generation of ThinkPad P Series Mobile Workstations
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    While “digital transformation” has become a nebulous buzz phrase in recent years that can mean quite a few different things, there definitely are digital trends causing many organizations to take action. For instance, many companies are moving to the public cloud for its economics and agility. No longer do they have to wait to have new hardware installed to take advantage of innovation nor do they have to worry about maintaining hardware. With this, the as-a-Service (aaS) model is also gaining in popularity. Keeping this in mind, Kaminario is continuing to improve its STaaS model. Kaminario Expands Its Storage-as-a-Service Offerings
  37. Adam_a
    Microsoft and Oracle hope that by allowing customers to run one part of a workload within Azure and another part of the same workload within the Oracle Cloud, their partnership will deliver a best-of-both-clouds experience. The partnership aims to provide direct network connectivity between two clouds while continuing to provide the customer service and support that enterprises have come to expect from the two companies. One example of how this might work is that customers can now connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database. Another example is running Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle JD Edwards on Azure against an Oracle Autonomous Database running on Exadata infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. Microsoft Azure & Oracle Cloud Interconnect
  38. Adam_a
    To help their customers leverage the full extent of NVMe-oF, Dell EMC has unveiled a new integrated Cisco compute (UCS) and storage (MDS) 32G options, which helps to extend PowerMax capabilities and thus NVMe performance across the VxBlock stack. Dell EMC indicates that this will enhance the architecture, high-performance consistency, availability and scalability of VxBlock. Dell EMC customers can now benefit from extreme end-to-end system performance with one, future-proof system. Dell EMC Expand VxBlock 1000 Integration Across Servers
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  40. Brian
    You're after something a little different...I do know someone worth your follow though - https://twitter.com/hyc_symas?lang=en
  41. technovelist
    The reason I'm interested in those numbers is because I'm developing a key-value store that benchmarks at about 1 microsecond latency when accessing a billion record store by key, so I'd like to know if they can get anywhere near that level.
  42. Brian
    I hate to say it, but this is why most end users really need to think harder about data protection. This kind of problem shouldn't happen. But is has...maybe you have someone local to you that can repair the connector? Is the connector soldered on on that one? I can't remember what WD was doing at the time.
  43. Brian
    It's my understanding that for this application those numbers aren't really relevant. So long as they're hitting under a millisecond, the system is happy and delivering enough performance.
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