More and more businesses are using a multi-cloud strategy from public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to facilitate innovation and growth. These cloud giants are the so-called hyperscalers, each of them offering over 100 different services over their platforms. Aligning these multiple cloud services to a specific organization’s strategy is critical and

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the latest generation of its HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA), HPE MSA Gen 6. This new generation is an entry-level hybrid-flash storage solution for small to medium businesses that leans toward performance and automation with a friendlier SMB budget. The new MSA can also be used to easily backup

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Dell announces second-quarter earnings. Toshiba releases a new Canvio lineup. Cloudian announces a strong first half of 2020. Diamanti announces GA of Spektra 3.0. GigaSpaces announces InsightEdge version 15.5. Quest Acquires Binary Tree. OWC

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Scality announces strong numbers for the first half of 2020. AWS announces New EBS io2 volumes. Snowflake files IPO. Canonical offers full Kubernetes 1.19 support. KIOXIA launches Gen4 U.3 SSDs for HPE. EnGenius announces

Today, the Kubernetes team officially released version 1.19 of the most popular open-source container-orchestration system. The 1.19 release boasts 34 enhancements despite the disruption caused by COVID-19. 9 of the enhancements are Alpha enhancements, 15 are in Beta stage, and the remaining 10 are Stable. The draft release notes from a few hours before the

Today, Pure Storage announced an update to their existing FlashArray//C Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Pure Storage’s previous FlashArray//C offerings used a mix of TLC (triple-level-cell) and QLC (quad-level-cell) flash memory. They now offer a full QLC flash storage array. John Colgrove and John Hayes founded Pure Storage 11 years ago in 2009. The company sells storage-as-a-service

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. MinIO launches Subscription Network. Asigra announces deep MFA backup. Plugable releases triple HDMI dock. AWS announces high-performance HDD storage for Amazon FSx for Lustre File System. BigID releases Hyperscan. NVIDIA Ampere technology sees

VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12 have been announced this week. Both products offer new features and capabilities for IT Admins, Developers, and everyone else. The key focus of these two releases is containers support, vSphere 7 Compatibility, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1, USB 3.1 Support, and more! Workstation and Fusion are VMware’s solutions that

Today, Portworx announced that the first major update of their backup product, PX-Backup, will be available in Tech Preview later this week. The last half of the month will also see updates for Portworx Enterprise and PX-Autopilot for Capacity Management. Goutham Rao, Murli Thirumale, and Vinod Jayaraman cofounded Portworx in 2014. Portworx’s software all starts