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.

Today, Oracle announced Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle describes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as an IaaS that delivers on-premises high-performance computing power to run Cloud-native and enterprise company’s IT workloads. Oracle was founded in 1977. Anyone with a technical background will likely remember their purchase of Sun and Java. The company

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