With 2020 being all-around awful and a pandemic raging in most of the world, all the trade shows have been trying out the virtual thing with varying levels of success. KubeCon 2020 has suffered the same fate, and like other virtual shows, this one feels a bit subdued as well. Not surprising considering the interruption
Dell Technologies is introducing the EXF900, a new appliance to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. Key features of this new all-flash appliance include high performance and flexible deployment. The company indicates that the object storage market is primed for a revolution based on object storage advantages, including scalability, flexibility, API-driven cloud-native architectures, and more. This
Today during KubeCon, KIOXIA announced that its popular storage software, KumoScale, has added new features to support containers and applications managed by the Kubernetes framework. The features will bring NVMe-oF performance to Kubernetes, for quite the performance bump. KIOXIA will be demonstrating the new features of KumoScale at the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. QNAP launches QuCPE Series. Seagate releases Game Drive for Xbox Halo: Master Chief Limited Edition. Samsung announced PCIe Gen4 drives. Catalogic Software launches CloudCasa. Scale Computing adds NVIDIA GPUs to its HC3.
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.
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