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VAST LightSpeed
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VAST LightSpeed Storage Platform Released

Today, VAST DATA released a storage platform with a delightful name, LightSpeed. VAST Data released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding in 2016, two series A, one series B, and one series C.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

VMware Updates Tanzu, vSAN, vSphere, & Cloud Foundation

Today, VMware has announced new product releases and offerings to simplify customer’s applications and infrastructure modernization. The company has updated its portfolio with a vast number of items, including VMware vSphere with Tanzu, VMware vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware vSAN 7 Update 1, VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 with Tanzu, VMware Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Standard

NVIDIA Arm
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NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40 Billion

NVIDIA made another major acquisition with the announcement of the definitive agreement to acquire Arm. Last year, NVIDIA acquired Mellanox for just under $7 billion.  Now, for an additional $40 billion, NVIDIA has its own full-stack.

ring8
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Scality All-Flash RING8 Announced

Today, Scality announced a new release of its RING object storage software platform and shared a few performance metrics when running on an all-flash cluster. Scality was founded in 2009. The company has two primary products.  The first is RING, the object storage software platform which is the focus of today’s article. RING is currently

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: AMD, Nutanix, Cloudian, LTO, & Quantum

This week’s News Bits, our 100th, we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AMD EPYC Secure Encryption Virtualization VM are now generally available on Google Compute Engine. Nutanix partners with Azure and releases new products. Cloudian introduces flash-optimized software. LTO Program releases specifications for the upcoming

Dell EMC PowerScale Cluster
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How it Works: Dell Technologies Multi-Cloud Storage with PowerScale

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

HPE MSA Gen 6
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HPE MSA Gen 6 Announced

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

toshiba canvio
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News Bits: Dell, Toshiba, Cloudian, Diamanti, GigaSpaces, Quest, OWC, & AWS

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

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Scality, AWS, Snowflake, Canonical, KIOXIA, EnGenius, VAST Data, Datadobi, & Cloudian

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

Kubernetes 1.19
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Kubernetes 1.19 Released

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