Recently VMware Inc. announced the release of an ESXi-Arm Fling. As the name suggests ESXi-Arm is a specific version of ESXi built to run on 64-bit Arm processors. While this has been a few years in the making, Project Monterey has helped speed up this process with the support of SmartNICs.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. OWC releases SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT for Windows. GIGABYTE announced its support for the new NVIDIA innovations. Diamanti announces support for Red Hat OpenShift. Komprise adds new capabilities for Azure.

Today, Backblaze announced a new Object Lock feature for their B2 Cloud Storage service. The Object Lock feature does exactly what it says it does; it locks stored data to prevent erasure or alteration. Backblaze was founded in 2007. The company offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup to

The NetApp C190 is an all-flash unified storage array targeted toward SMBs and edge use cases that comes in a compact 2U form-factor. The C190 uses NetApp’s feature-rich ONTAP software, delivering the robust data services NetApp users have come to appreciate. The array is designed specifically for the channel, giving resellers a low-cost option in

Today Rancher Labs released the latest version of its eponymous software with the release of Rancher 2.5. Being a Kubernetes management platform, the latest upgrades and capabilities are going to surround Kubernetes including an enhanced single cluster management experience, application deployment at scale expanded, expanded cloud distribution support, and a new security hardened, certified Kubernetes

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Datadobi launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service. Veritas acquires Globanet. Cohesity announces Automated Disaster Recovery. NETGEAR releases cable modem with WiFi 6 technology. Hammerspace is free up to 10TB. Synology adds new SSD and updates

This week AWS made yet another announcement surrounding their AWS Outposts, this time granting the ability to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) APIs. Now users of Outposts will be able to store and retrieve their object data the same way they would in a normal AWS Region. All the tools, apps, scripts, or utilities

Intel Corp. announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Lightbits Labs. This new collaboration is said to propel development of disaggregated storage solutions to solve the challenges of today’s data center operators who are craving improved total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) due to stranded disk capacity and performance. On top of the two companies sharing

Today at VMworld 2020, Dell Technologies announced several innovations of its technology that integrates with VMware environments. The new innovations cover the gamut of providing better protection, management, and better support for both traditional and modern applications regardless if they are at edge locations, core data centers, and/or in hybrid clouds. The updates cover Dell