Clever Cloud, which is currently setting up a third Parisian data center, has chosen to partner with the French company Kalray and its Flashbox NVMe storage array that can accommodate up to 24 PCIe (NVMe) SSDs. Flashbox has no host CPU. Instead, it has a K200-LP accelerator card featuring a Coolidge 80-core DPU (Data Processing Unit) that takes advantage of the MPPA (Massively Parallel Processor Array) architecture developed by Kalray. It can deliver up to 12 million IOPS via 2x 100Gb/s network interface and is based on market standards such as Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), NVMe/TCP or RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv1/v2). Eventually it will be offered by storage vendors using Kalray cards. The Flashbox will be on display at the upcoming Flash Memory Summit from Aug. 2 to 4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA (booth #940).
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Data protector Commvault has appointed Cesar Cid de Rivera as International VP of Sales Engineering. He previously worked at Commvault in 2013-2017 and will lead the pre-sales and technical team responsible for delivering Commvault’s iIntelligent Data Management services to customers and partners. Cid de Rivera has recently worked at ServiceNow, Pegasystems, Symantec, and Veritas.
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Kingston Digital has announced the portable XTS-AES Encrypted USB drive with automatic-but optional-USBtoCloud backup. It provides consumer-grade security with AES hardware-encryption in XTS mode to protect against BadUSB with digitally-signed firmware and Brute Force password attacks.
The drive offers multi-password Admin and User options with Complex or Passphrase modes. To reduce failed login attempts during password entry, the “eye” symbol can be enabled to show what was typed. But if a User password is forgotten, the Admin password can be used to access the data on the drive or reset the User password. USBtoCloud backup drive supports Google Drive OneDrive (Microsoft), Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox or Box for user’s personal cloud storage. It is available in capacities from 16GB to 128GB and is supported by a limited five year warranty and free technical support.
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Microsoft has announced a preview of Azure Virtual Machines Backup that can take multiple snapshots a day. It supports the four-hour recovery point goal and offers instant retention with a default of seven days retention and a maximum of 30 days.
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Data protector N-so says its Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365, developed for MSPS, has officially surpassed one million protected Microsoft 365 users. More than 4,600 N-able partners are using the solution to help prevent data loss across more than 36,000 customer domains and more than 1.2 million Exchange mailboxes.
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N-so has purchased Spinpanel, a multi-tenant Microsoft 365 management and automation technology developed for Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). A large majority of N-able partners manage and/or resell Microsoft Cloud services for their small and medium business customers. The acquisition will help N -able partners alleviate two challenges – labor shortages and migration to the cloud. It will also give Spinpanel customers access to a wider range of IT management and security services.
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PNY has announced its EliteX-Pro USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 portable SSD in an aluminum chassis. It flashes with transfer speeds of up to 1,600MB/sec read and 1,500MB/sec write, and has 100GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities. Acronis True Image data protection is included along with USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables. PNY EliteX-PRO will be available for pre-order, starting July 4 on Amazon.
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ScaleOut Software has introduced its ScaleOut In-Memory Database with support for Redis clients as a full production release. Redis clients can now connect to a cluster of ScaleOut servers to run Redis commands and dramatically improve their ease of use, scaling, and automatic data retrieval. They can also simultaneously backup and restore all cluster nodes with one command. The ScaleOut In-Memory Database includes open-source Redis version 6.2.5 code to process Redis commands, and it offers the flexibility to run on either Linux or Windows servers. This full production release supports all popular Redis data structures (strings, sets, sorted sets, lists, hashes, geospatials, hyperloglogs, and streams), as well as transactions, commands publishing/subscribing, and blocking commands. LUA scripting, modules, and AOF persistence are not supported in this release.
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Exceed has launched the ESD380C USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 interface portable SSD with a performance speed of 2,000 MB/sec, up to 2TB capacity, and an anti-shock, compact aluminum design. It is covered by a silicone rubber case to make it more rugged and shock-absorbing to meet U.S. military drop-test standards. It includes USB Type-C and Type-C to Type-A cables. The drive comes with free Transcend Elite data management software, which provides various functions, which include backup, restore, encryption, decryption, cloud backup, etc. It is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Android. Visit the Transcend website for more details.