For years, automated storage tiering has been an essential solution for enterprises looking to manage their data center footprint efficiently while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The strategy is simple: use auto-tiering algorithms and policies, and keep active data on primary storage while moving inactive data to inexpensive storage categories. In recent years,
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TrilioVault for Kubernetes now available with IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat Marketplace. SIOS AppKeeper now available in AWS Marketplace. XPG launches GAMMIX S50 Lite SSD. AWS launches T4g instance. Aerospike announces upgrades
Today Pure Storage announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Portworx. Portworx is known for being a Kubernetes data services platform enterprises trust to run mission-critical applications in containers in production. This is Pure’s largest acquisition with a number of roughly $370 million. Pure Storage is stating that the deal will
VMware rolled out several updates earlier this morning. Dell Technologies followed suit with its own HCI portfolio, but more tightly integrating VMware with VxRail. Further pressing into the new capabilities and features released by VMware, Dell is also announcing Dell EMC ObjectScale Early Access for a select number of its customers.
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.
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 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.
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
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
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
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