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In hands-on testing, PT found that equipping Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Optane persistent memory increased VDI density.

Storage Startup Pliops Snags $65M Round As Nvidia Ups Stake ‘We make OLC higher performance by eliminating up to 90 percent of writes to QLC. That makes QLC NAND last up to 10 times longer than it otherwise would. When paired with Intel Optane, which is already fast, we make it faster,’ says Pliops President Steve Fingerhut. By Joseph F. Kovar February 26, 2021, 04:32 PM EST Pliops, a startup developer of technology for improving storage performance using l...

The Mac price crash of 2021 (used Macs prices down) Posted on The Mac price crash of 2021 Macs hold their value. Where I live it’s not uncommon to see 10-, 12-, even 20-year-old Macs for sale. But the new M1 Macs have cratered MacBook resale values. The carnage is just beginning. The impressive performance and battery life gains of the new M1 MacBooks have created a historic discontinuity in the normally placid resale market. Should you spend $800 for a one year old MacBook Air when for $20...

HP Spectre x360 14 review: Luxurious, with long battery life The latest Intel CPU and Iris Xe graphics make all the difference. Credit: Ben Patterson/IDG The luxurious HP Spectre x360 14 is back with some new bling—Intel’s Tiger Lake CPU. The results are as impressive as we’d hoped, with some of the fastest multi-core benchmark scores we’ve ever seen. The features spoil you as much as the speed. With its roomy display, powerful graphics, and exceptional battery life, the Spect...

Only slightly heavier Spectre x360 14 has bigger panel, 3:2 aspect ratio The HP Spectre x360 14 we tested at the very start of 2021 impressed us so much we began our review by saying, "HP still sells the Spectre x360 13, but you can forget about it." At the risk of eating our words, the latest Spectre x360 13 (starts at $962.49; $1,262.49 as tested) isnt totally forgettable if youre looking for a small and light convertible laptop. Sure, it lacks the taller 3:2 screen aspect ratio that helped i...

6 features of souped-up HCI from Hitachi Hyperconverged Infrastructure: A Market Update In the absence of high-performance technology, critical applications are deployed with excess compute and storage resources to meet performance SLAs. And since legacy storage architectures were never meant to take advantage of massive parallel processing to improve performance, IT teams need to streamline their setups while reducing operational expenditure. The hyperconverged Hitachi Unified Compute Platform...

Intel issues a discontinuation notice for all consumer Optane SSDs in desktops, bringing a radical experiment to an end, but the technology lives on in laptops and servers.

Oracle charts a different path for cloud data services Read later Summary: Drilling down on Oracles announcement of 21c and the APEX cloud service against the backdrop of how the companys broader DB strategy differs from that of cloud competitors. (Oracle) AWS is the big kahuna in cloud computing, so its bound to attract the most fire from competitors trying to stand out from the crowd, however, the animosity between Oracle and AWS isnt merely the typical sniping between rivals. I wont recount...

Intel has discontinued all of its Optane Memory-only SSDs from the client-market segment without providing a new successor. As per Intel, from now on, the new Optane Memory H20 with solid-state storage will be the company’s product for that same segment. As per TomsHardware, Intel’s discontinuance of the Optane Memory-only SSDs includes the Optane Memory M10, 800P, 900P, and 905P SSDs, putting an end to the high-end Optane SSDs for desktops. The discontinuance process of all models ...

Jan 16, 2021 23:16 EST Intels entire 11th Generation Rocket Lake & Comet Lake Refresh Desktop CPU family has been listed online along with preliminary prices. A total of 30 CPUs have been listed by Belgian etailer, 2Compute along with prices which suggest that the upcoming flagship might be slightly cheaper than the existing one. Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake & Comet Lake Refresh Desktop CPU Listed Online With Specs & Prices, Early Pricing Shows i9 CPUs Cheaper Than Predecessors The retailer ...