Broadcom announced that its Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are the industry’s first-ever HBAs to provide full support for VMware ESXi 7.0, delivering high-performing, NVMe over Fibre Channel, for applications running on ESXi servers.
Western Digital consolidated its leadership position as it introduces highest capacity hard drives. The company announced that it will start sampling the 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD and the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD to select customers by the end of 2019 with production ramp expected in the first half of 2020.
Broadcom announced an NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage adapter solution designed to greatly simplify storage disaggregation and accelerate the adoption of storage over fabrics in cloud and enterprise networks.
