Category: Rackmount Servers

To meet the growing number of data center services and private-cloud applications, IT departments are replacing traditional direct attached storage (DAS) with NVMe flash-based arrays and storage targets that utilize NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) technologies. You may be surprised to learn that the NVMe protocol is not limited to connecting flash SSDs by PCIe within…

The challenge to meet the performance demands of on-prem data center applications and services – including high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, virtualization (VMs/containers), AI/ML and data analytics – has forced organizations to explore an all-flash NVMe solution. Generally, IT departments migrate to NVMe from traditional SATA or SAS storage in the data center,…

Need to drive up storage capacity while driving down TCO? Western Digital’s large-capacity enterprise HDDs are now available up to 18TB. The high-capacity Ultrastar DC HC500 Series HDDs can help solve TCO challenges at where storage density and cost-efficient infrastructure is crucial. The purpose-built DC HC500 Series product family is based on Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording…

If you manage a virtualized environments at your organization, you should be aware that effective April 2, 2020, VMware moved from a per-CPU pricing model to a core-based pricing model. As a result of this licensing change, VMware will require an additional CPU license if a server’s CPU has more than 32 physical cores. Announced…

As we approach the mid-point of a tumultuous 2020, competition between Intel and AMD in the data center is starting to heat up. Despite the economic impact on business and technology and supply chain disruption from COVID-19, demand for server computing is growing, and Intel is looking to fend off AMD by pushing forward on…