Today Lightbits Labs released LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private, hybrid, and edge deployments. This 0.1 release is said to further enhance high-performance, scalability, and low latency. This is also another step on the path or the company’s vision of enabling organizations to unleash hyperscale storage for private clouds, but at
Today Kubernetes released its third major release of 2020 with Kubernetes 1.20. This release has a massive 44 enhancements. Of the 44, 11 have graduated to stable, 15 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. IGEL expands endpoint management capabilities. Ivanti Acquires MobileIron & Pulse Secure. Rubrik announces new AWS innovations. GigaSpaces launches InsightEdge portfolio. Actifio to be acquired by Google. Robin.IO Robin Cloud Native Storage qualifies
Today, Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) unveiled a series of new ThinkSystem end-to-end data management solution updates. These new updates include Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series Storage Manager OS, ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring 2.0, Lenovo DB720S Fibre Channel Switch, and ThinkSystem DM5100F All-Flash Storage Array. Lenovo indicates that new updates will allow customers of all sizes, with
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
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