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

Today, Dell Technologies is making new features and enhancements for Dell EMC PowerMax storage array generally available. Dell originally introduced PowerMax two years ago in 2018, and we covered the company’s addition of persistent storage almost exactly a year ago. Dell Technologies has been the parent company of Dell and Dell EMC ever since Dell

Today at VMworld 2020, VMware announced both new and enhanced VMware Cloud Services that aim to help its customers build their multi-cloud future. As with several of the announcements today, these aim to help customers build, run, manage, connect, and protect any app on any cloud. VMware states that the following will unlock the full

Today at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc. celebrated the 1-year birthday of VMware Tanzu with the announcement of expanding the portfolio, new support, and a new partnership. The new support includes VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. The new partnership is with GitLab.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NAKIVO releases Backup & Replication v10.1. Retrospect Announces Retrospect Backup 17.5. OWC Introduces Mercury Pro LTO. Cisco Intersight is now integrated with Hitachi Storage

Back at the beginning of the year, Seagate unveiled its Lyve Drive Mobile system, of modular storage for enterprise, cloud, and edge. Today at their Datasphere Virtual Conference the company announced an open, flexible converged infrastructure, Seagate Lyve Drive Rack. Seagate also announced CORTX, a hardware-agnostic open-source object storage software, as well as a corresponding

KIOXIA America, Inc. announced new direct-attached, network-attached devices with the KIOXIA Ethernet SSD Storage. This didn’t solely come from KIOXIA, they have been working with several players in the industry including Marvell, Foxconn-Ingrasys and Accton. These companies are working together to bring Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) technology solutions to market, this announcement being the