Summary: California [USA], Sept 3 (ANI): A new type of
Supermicro bug could potentially allow hackers to take down the entire network of computers on corporate servers using 'virtual USBs'.
Supermicro solutions, coupled with industry-proven vSAN, provides turn-key solutions for the hyper-converged infrastructure marketplace.
Many of the servers involved in the project were provided by
Supermicro. Michael Scriber senior director, server solution management at the company, highlights the development that has taken place to enable multiple generations of
Supermicro technology: 'Our involvement really spans a number of years, as you can tell from the white paper there are a number of generations of products that were involved.
Middleton, MA, July 13, 2019 --(PR.com)-- StarWind, Intel, Mellanox, and
Supermicro present the industry's fastest hyperconverged cluster built to demonstrate outstanding hardware utilization efficiency.
Companies participating in the event include Intel, Reliance Jio,
Supermicro, Cisco, Red Hat, Asia Pacific Telecom, Viavi Solutions, Keysight, Quanta Computer, Rohde and Schwarz, and MediaTek.
An Amazon spokesperson stated: "As we shared with Bloomberg Businessweek multiple times over the last couple months, at no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in
SuperMicro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems.CA Additionally, we have not engaged in an investigation with the government."
Bloomberg reported that the malicious chips were planted by a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which infiltrated the supply chain of a hardware company called
Supermicro. The operation is thought to have been targeting valuable commercial secrets and government networks, the news agency said.
'Our new All-Flash NVMe BigTwin solution, which is fully ready to deploy and has undergone stringent validation testing and certification by Intel, VMware and
Supermicro, is the preferred platform for many of today's leading hyperconvergence players,' said Charles Liang, President and CEO of
Supermicro.
Supermicro disaggregated Resource Saving servers are said to represent a new type of computing platform.
Supermicro's new 4U system with next-generation NVIDIA
and
Supermicro. TCP promises to open the market for NVMe over fabrics by leveraging the native Ethernet transport, without requiring the deployment of network protocols such as data center bridging (DCB), iWARP or RoCE.