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,

Today at NetApp Insight, the company announced that it was bringing better optimization and enterprise data servers to the Cloud. These include a new serverless and storageless solution for containers from Spot by NetApp, new autonomous hybrid cloud volume platform, and cloud-based virtual desktop solutions. The new announcements center on simplifying and optimizing the cloud

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Backblaze hard drive stats For Q3 2020 are out. Commvault HyperScale X Reference Architectures and Remote Office Appliance launched. Robin.io Express Edition launched. Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise announced. Ivanti adds innovations

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