Eaton HDXL Rack PDU Review: 81kW From a Single Zero-U PDU for AI Racks
Eaton is getting ready to ship the kind of PDU that didn’t need to exist five years ago. The HDXL Rack PDU G4, arriving in the fourth quarter of 2026, delivers 56-81kW from a single zero-U unit, with...
View ArticleMicron 6600 ION 245TB: Swap the Hard Drives, Power an NVL72 for Free
For two decades, the SSD-versus-HDD conversation ended the same way: flash wins on performance, disk wins on price per terabyte, and the size of that price gap settled the argument in favor of bulk...
View ArticleKIOXIA CM9-R 15.36TB Review: BiCS8 Flash Hits Full Speed at Low Queue Depths
The KIOXIA CM9-R is the first enterprise SSD family built on eighth-generation BiCS FLASH, and the 15.36TB E3.S model in our lab is the volume sweet spot of the range: 3,400K random read IOPS and...
View ArticleSolidigm D7-PS1030 Review: 3 DWPD Gen5 That Earned Its Keep in the KV Cache Tier
The Solidigm D7-PS1030 is the mid-endurance arm of the company’s first PCIe 5.0 data center family, pairing the platform it shares with the D7-PS1010 with a 3 DWPD rating and a random write ceiling of...
View ArticleQNAP High Availability Tested: Sub-Minute Failover on a Pair of TS-h765eU
High availability has moved from a data center luxury to a line item in ordinary resiliency planning. Small businesses and edge sites now run point-of-sale, surveillance, and shared storage that cost...
View ArticleUbiquiti UPS 2U Pro Review: 1920W of UniFi-Managed Rackmount Power Protection
Ubiquiti continues to expand its UniFi power ecosystem with the UPS 2U Pro, a higher-capacity rackmount UPS designed for larger network racks, storage systems, and other infrastructure that needs...
View ArticleUbiquiti Enterprise NAS Review: 16 Bays, Dual 25GbE, and ZFS for $3,999
The Enterprise NAS (ENAS) is Ubiquiti’s first run at more enterprise-lite business storage. The 3U chassis holds 16 hot-swap drive bays, an eight-core Arm Neoverse N2 processor, 64GB of ECC memory,...
View ArticleThe Token-Efficient Path for Long-Context Inference: KV Cache Offload to Flash
Enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted from optimizing training models to serving them, and that changes the economics. Training is a capital project with an endpoint. Inference is a production...
View ArticleUbiquiti UniFi E7 and E7 Campus Review: 10-Stream WiFi 7 With 10GbE From $499
Ubiquiti continues to expand into the enterprise wireless market with the introduction of the UniFi E7 and E7-Campus, two flagship WiFi 7 access points designed for high-density, high-performance...
View ArticleTassient Aipex Review: AI Remote Remediation, Management, and Monitoring
Most RMM (remote monitoring and management) platforms are very good at telling you something broke, but not much help with actually fixing it. Aipex, a clean-sheet, AI-first product from Tassient, is...
View ArticleKioxia CD9P-R Review: Read-Intensive Gen5 Up to 61.44TB
The Kioxia CD9P-R is the read-intensive arm of the company’s new data center NVMe SSD generation, and the first CD-series drive built on BiCS FLASH generation 8 TLC. The series pairs Kioxia’s own...
View ArticleHPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and NIST CSF 2.0: A Full-Stack Cyber Resilience...
HPE has built a coordinated cyber resilience architecture around the Alletra Storage MP B10000. It extends the platform’s native security capabilities through an integrated stack that includes...
View ArticleFrom Database and Virtualized Workloads to Backup: Dell PowerEdge R4715 and...
Although Dell’s PowerEdge R4715 and R5715 are two separate products, they should be viewed as a configurable matrix. The matrix includes two chassis, four AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPU options, a wide...
View ArticleMicron 6600 ION 245TB SSD Review: A Quarter Petabyte Per Drive Bay
Micron’s 6600 ION NVMe SSD has reached 245.76TB, pushing the company’s capacity-focused PCIe Gen5 QLC line into quarter-petabyte territory. Micron began shipping the 245TB model on May 5, 2026, and is...
View ArticleDell PowerStore Gen 3: Inside the Most Aggressive Enterprise Storage Reset in...
Storage refreshes usually come in two flavors. There’s the quiet uplift, where a vendor rolls in a new CPU, claims a few percentage points of performance, and ships the same chassis with a different...
View ArticleDell PowerProtect One: Open, Integrated, and Intelligent Cyber Resilience
Backup and recovery infrastructure has always been the part of the data center that gets the most attention when something goes wrong, but that pattern has shifted. Ransomware has made backup the last...
View ArticleDell PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash Appliance: The Intel Powered...
Infrastructure for cyber resilience occupies a position in the enterprise stack that primary storage does not. When a system fails, data becomes corrupted, or ransomware locks an organization out of...
View ArticleDapuStor R6060 122TB Review: Read-Heavy Gen5 QLC at Scale
The DapuStor R6060 is a PCIe Gen5 enterprise QLC SSD built around the company’s DP800 controller and 3D QLC NAND. The series spans U.2, E3.L, and E1.L form factors, with capacities of 15.36TB,...
View ArticleSeagate IronWolf Pro 32TB Review: Top-of-Stack Capacity for Multi-Bay NAS
The Seagate IronWolf Pro 32TB is the NAS-tuned member of Seagate’s first 32TB CMR generation, announced alongside matching 32TB Exos and SkyHawk AI variants in 2026, and has been shipping through...
View ArticleNVIDIA DGX Spark Cluster Review: Distributed Inference on Dell, GIGABYTE, and HP
Two things tend to come up first whenever the conversation turns to the NVIDIA DGX Spark. The first is the headline spec: 128 GB of unified memory in a roughly $4,000 desktop box, a number that would...
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