AWS has announced S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers and several new storage features and updates as a part of the second-ever AWS Storage Day. The updates aim to lower customers’ costs and improve performance, management, and integration for several AWS storage services. These services include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon, Amazon FSx for Lustre and

Today Micron Technology, Inc. announced that it is shipping, in bulk, the world’s first 176-Layer 3D NAND. 176-Layer would be the densest on the market allowing for potentially more capacity in a smaller footprint ideal for mobile, automotive, client devices as well as the data center. The new NAND will go through both Micron and

Dell Technologies has announced new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and HPC cloud service provider partnerships. The strategy seeks to help customers accelerate advanced computing and AI to drive innovation in healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing. Dell Technologies’ expanded portfolio consists of Ready Solution for HPC Genomics, Ready Solution for Digital Manufacturing with Altair Hyperworks Unlimited,

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Microsoft 365 leverages AMD EPYC VMs for higher performance. MemSQL changes name to SingleStore. OWC acquires BRU. Ivanti updates its Unified Endpoint Manager. Nasuni named a Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Partner. TEAMGROUP

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest

It its apparent quest to buy all the storage companies, StorCentric announced that it has acquired Violin Systems. With this acquisition, StorCentric adds software-defined NVMe, high-performance storage to its portfolio. This rounds out the enterprise workload demands, making StorCentric more of a one-stop-shop.

This week, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves. AWS Nitro Enclaves makes it easy for customers to create isolated compute environments within Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to protect their highly sensitive workloads. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory

In yet another big consolidation in the industry, AMD announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx today. The deal is said to be an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $35 billion. The combined technology of the two vendors will create one of the largest high-performance computing companies.

Today, IBM announced how they intend to improve their support for Kubernetes in the near future. IBM introduced their first storage for containers in 2017 and has been slowly improving their support since then. In 2018 the computing giant announced plans to acquire Red Hat. IBM was founded in 1911. Over a hundred years old,