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Diamanti Announces Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes Platform
Today, at KubeCon, Diamanti announced the upcoming launch of Diamanti Spektra. Spektra will be a hybrid cloud Kubernetes control plane focused on application and data persistence spanning public and private clouds. Diamanti was founded in the early 2010s and provides open-source Kubernetes platforms.
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Dell EMC Server Announcements from SC19
Today, at Supercomputing 2019, Dell made a slew of announcements. The company released two new Dell EMC Ready Solutions, announced a Ready Solutions for AI validated design due next month and announced new GPU and FPGA options for its PowerEdge Servers that are slated for sometime early next year.
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NVIDIA Announces New Reference Design Platform
NVIDIA has announced a new reference design platform, allowing organizations to quickly build GPU-accelerated Arm-based servers. NVIDIA believes that this will help promote a “new era” of high-performance computing for an ever-increasing array of applications in science and industry.
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NVIDIA Magnum IO Software Suite Now Available
NVIDIA has announced the Magnum IO software suite, which is designed to help data scientists and AI and high-performance computing researchers process huge amounts of data very quickly. Magnum IO has been optimized to eliminate storage and input/output bottlenecks, and is quoted with data processing speeds that are twenty (20) times faster for multi-server, multi-GPU computing nodes when working with massive datasets. This will allow organizations to perform complex financial analysis, climate modeling and other HPC workloads.
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NVIDIA Announces Scalable GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
NVIDIA has announced the availability of a new cloud-based, GPU-accelerated supercomputer available on Microsoft Azure. Built to handle demanding AI, machine learning and high-performance computing applications, NVIDIA indicates that their new offering will provide significant performance and cost advantages compared to traditional CPU-based computing. For example, AI researchers will be able to spin up multiple NDv2 instances and train complex conversational AI models in hours, says the company.
November 18th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
TYAN Launches AMD EPYC HPC & Storage Servers At SC19
Today at SC19 in Denver, Colorado, TYAN announced its newest lineup of HPC and storage server platforms that are based off of the AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors. The new lineup is aimed to deliver maximum performance and is aimed at the datacenter.
November 18th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
AMD Makes Several Announcements At SC19
Today at SC19 in Denver, AMD made a slew of announcements in HPC. The company announced new EC2 instances with AWS. And, as we’ve previously covered, GIGABYTE announced five new servers that leverage 2nd generation AMD EPYC, bringing their total to 28 servers.
November 18th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
GIGABYTE Releases 7 GPU Servers
Today GIGABYTE released seven new GPU heavy servers to cater to current and upcoming AI needs. These new servers have some of the highest GPU density on the market. While artificial intelligence is the first thing that comes to mind, the servers are also ideal for deep learning, scientific analysis and simulation, VDI or video streaming. GIGABYTE will be at SC19 at Booth 617, Denver Convention Center during November 18 to 21 in Denver, Colorado.
November 18th, 2019 by Lyle Smith
Cumulus Linux 4.0 and NetQ 2.4 Announced
Cumulus Networks has announced the most recent version of Cumulus Linux 4.0 and NetQ 2.4, promising its most feature-rich release to date. Last month, the company extended this software stack to campus networks. The latest version includes new support for the switch silicon, EVPN implementation for L2/L3 connectivity, increased visibility and troubleshooting with a NetQ cloud-based deployment model, comprehensive end-to-end network automation, and a single fabric across data center and campus networking environments. Last month, Cumulus Linux and NetQ for enterprises were extended to Campus Networks.
November 18th, 2019 by Lyle Smith
HP Announces HP ZCentral
HP has announced HP ZCentral, dubbed by the company as the world’s first single-sourced remote workstation solution. Specifically, ZCentral will centralize high-end computer power in a single location, which will help promote remote, mobile and fluid workstyles for power-users working in graphics-intensive application environments. With ZCentral, the company combines Z by HP racked high-performance workstations, next-gen ZCentral Remote Boost software, and new proprietary ZCentral Connect software to improve user workflow. HP will deliver the full end-to-end ZCentral solutions to partners across various industries, including AEC, Data Science, Media and Entertainment, and Oil and Gas, among others.
After having a chance to work with and review 
We first became acquainted with Diamanti two years ago at KubeCon 2017, and we were impressed with their vision: to provide a bare-metal container platform purpose-built for microservices and cloud-native environments, and optimized for Kubernetes or, basically, a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for Kubernetes. We saw this as an interesting play and last year at KubeCon 2018 we started to talk to them about working with us to understand storage on Kubernetes and how Kubernetes storage can be tested, and quantified in a methodical fashion so we can start to test and document Kubernetes storage performance.
The Lenovo 4U ThinkSystem SR950 is a built for the most resource-intensive and mission-critical workloads. This massive iron is considered one of the company’s flagship servers, focusing heavily on continuous operation and “always-on” reliability coupled with several levels of resiliency to protect data. This enterprise-class server is designed for those that need four or more processors, a ton of memory, and a range of I/O connections. 
In the past, we had reviewed some of the based management controller (BMC) solutions from major server manufacturers, including 
In July, DataCore announced DataCore ONE, the company’s vision for the software-defined storage (SDS) industry. As part of the launch, DataCore released a new turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance. The HCI-Flex appliance merges the flexibility of hyperconverged with the flexibility of SDS into a single appliance that comes pre-installed with either VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as DataCore’s advanced data services including smart caching, thin provisioning, dynamic-auto-tiering, and Parallel I/O acceleration.
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