Today, Diamanti announced a new standalone software product based on their existing Kubernetes management solution, Diamanti Ultima. Just three months ago, Diamanti announced the 3.0 version of Diamanti Spektra. Diamanti was founded in the early 2010s and provides open-source Kubernetes platforms. Earlier this month, the company announced support for Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform.

Today at Dell Tech World, Dell Technologies unveiled Project APEX. The new project is the name of the company’s expanding as-a-Service strategy. The main aim of Project APEX is to simplify how customers and partners access Dell technology on-demand, meaning the entire Dell and Dell EMC offerings, through a single self-service interface.

Intel has agreed to sell its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix, the South Korean chipmaker. Earlier Sources are suggested that the sale will go for roughly $10 billion; however, the deal was closed for $9 billion in an all-cash transaction that would see Intel’s SSD business in the United States go to SK

Two years ago, DataDirect Networks (DDN) decided to buy Tintri. So far, DDN has continued releasing products under the Tintri brand name while slowly incorporating Tintri’s technology. Today, DDN has taken another step along their surprisingly long road to fully absorbing the company they bought. Tintri just released a new hybrid NVMe/HDD series of systems

Today NetApp made several announcements including the release of a new entry-level system in their AFF series, the NetApp AFF A250. The A250 is set to replace the A220 but sit under the A300. The A250 is said to deliver best-in-class performance and efficiency at an entry price point to mid-size business customers allowing for

Over the years, NetApp has transformed SolidFire into the all-flash storage system that acts as a foundation for their cloud infrastructure. Today, the company is announcing NetApp SolidFire Enterprise SDS as a foundation for the private cloud.

Today NetApp made several announcements around hardware, software, and cloud. One of the hardware announcements was the new NetApp FAS500f. The FAS500f is the company’s first all flash capacity array, and leverages QLC SSDs.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cohesity and AWS to deliver Data Management as a Service (DMaaS). Lenovo releases ThinkIoT Smarter Store Solution. Privacera releases Platform 4.0. AMD EPYC processors power Microsoft Azure Data Explorer. Login VSI releases Login Enterprise

Today Canonical, the Ubuntu company, announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. MicroK8s was introduced in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine for IoT devices and workstations. HA MicroK8s come with the needed resiliency for production workload in the cloud and/or server deployments.