VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To help customers accelerate innovation, speed time-to-value and modernize their data centers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new server portfolio. These new offerings include: * New compute platforms with built-in support for Persistent Memory, a technology that combines the performance of high-speed memory and the persistence of storage to deliver new levels of application performance * New HPE ProLiant Gen9 server options and related solutions to help enterprise customers modernize their data centers * New HPE workload-optimized platforms and solutions including new HPE Apollo and HPE Moonshot systems – designed to deliver new levels of performance and real-time insights for deep learning systems, high-performance computing (HPC) and financial services industry (FSI) applications.. Read More

NetApp has announced the launch of NetApp ONTAP 9 operating system, an enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. With ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can quickly integrate the best of traditional and emerging technologies, incorporating flash, the cloud and software-defined architectures to build a Data Fabric foundation across on-premises and cloud resources. “As effective flash dollar-per-GB costs drop, flash deployment in the enterprise is accelerating. NetApp’s release of the industry’s first 15TB flash drive, combined with new storage efficiency technology features in ONTAP 9, continues to drive that cost down in a flash-optimized, enterprise-class storage platform that is well suited for the type of dense mixed workload consolidation that customers are increasingly looking to their trusted suppliers to deliver,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage

To bring a high-performance open acceleration framework to data centers, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., and Xilinx, Inc. have collaborated. The companies are collaborating on the specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX).  A single interconnect technology specification will ensure that processors using different  instruction set architectures (ISA) can coherently share data with accelerators and enable efficient heterogeneous computing – significantly improving compute efficiency for servers running data center workloads. “AMD strongly supports development of open standards to make heterogeneous computing more pervasive. By joining with others in the industry to develop new interconnect specifications to accelerate performance, AMD continues its commitment to open, heterogeneous computing,” said Gerry Talbot, AMD Corporate Fellow and Vice-President of I/O and Circuit Technologies.

LG Electronics has unveiled its modular smartphone G5, which is also accompanied with devices like LG CAM Plus, LG 360 CAM and LG 360 VR in the Indian market at Rs.52,990. This modular smartphone comes with a sleek metal uni-body featuring a Slide-out battery and a Modular Type design for better user experience. Speaking on the occasion, Kim Ki Wan, Managing Director, LG Electronics India, said, “We are really proud to bring the LG G5 to India. With this smartphone, we are living up to our promise of Innovation for a Better Life. LG has always brought something really innovative to the world of smartphones. This year yet again with G5, we have come up with a very unique concept of modular smartphone. This phone will certainly amaze the smartphone users with its ability to be transformed into multiple devices like digital camera, Hi-Fi player and more. G5 will certainly redefine smartphone experience for consumers.” Read More