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

Today iXsystems announced the TrueNAS 12.0 operating system that finally merges the FreeNAS and TrueNAS brands unifying the software and documentation. As we’ve said several times before, there will still be a free version for those that are worried. The companied also announced TrueNAS M60 Unified Storage System that they are calling the industry’s fastest

Earlier today, IBM reveled a new next generation CPU family, the IBM POWER10. This is a 7nm CPU that is designed to meet the needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing. The new CPU family is specifically co-optimized for Red Hat OpenShift, no surprise there.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Mirantis acquires Lens. Quantum DXi 4.1 software released. Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure available on AWS. Dell Financial Services extends Payment Flexibility Program. Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac released. Hammerspace extends its channel program. Alluxio

Today, Spin Memory announced a new RAM (Random-Access Memory) production technology that improves memory density (and thus capacity) by at least 20%. The company claims that some chips designs can embed up to five times more memory in the same area footprint with minimal additional wafer processing costs by adopting their new technology. Spin Memory

Today WekaIO and Destiny Corporation announced that they have published a reference design that is capable of delivering 5X runtime and wall clock time improvements for SAS analytics long running jobs. Not only is the new solution aimed at performance but it is said to provide good storage economics as well. This solution is available

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Ivanti integrates Ivanti Neurons Platform with Splunk Security Operations Suite. Unisys enhances CloudForte. Microchip introduces new 8-Channel SSD controller. Quantum ActiveScale software verified as Veeam Ready. Actifio Supports New Oracle VMware Solution.