Robin.io released an upgrade to their eponymous Robin software platform. The upgrade adds support for hosting a single application on one-or-more cloud environments, without needing to any endpoint specific modifications. Robin.io primary product is the Robin software platform for life cycle management and automating scaling and deployment of Kubernetes applications.
In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Shawn Meyers, Field CTO at Tintri. The podcast starts off with Field of Dreams talk and winning an Eric Davis autographed baseball. Shawn talks about his years as a customer, and reminisces about Fusion-io edge cards. Eventually the topic of Tintri comes up, which has been around about
This week, VMware has announced new offerings for its AWS solution platform, addressing the need for more compute, storage, and memory, and for automation and ease of operations. VMware highlights the availability of the i3en.metal, a new bare-metal instance type for VMware Cloud on AWS clusters, and also a new 2-host cluster capability, available only
Micron launched what they’re calling a Technology Enablement Program (TEP) for their still in development DDR5 DRAM sticks. We covered the expected specs of DDR5 when Micron announced that they’d begun sampling their new product in January. Micron has remained a major producer of semiconductor products, including DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) and flash drives.
StorCentric Nexsan released two new storage appliances, the StorCentric Unity 3300 and StorCentric Unity 7900 rack units. StorCentric was founded just two years ago in August 2018. In the less than two years it has existed, it has gobbled up four storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that they would
Today Tintri announced its new innovative storage technology, Tintri SQL Integrated Storage. The company states that this new storage will deliver unparalleled visibility, automation and control for virtual and physical Microsoft SQL Server databases. Tintri goes on to claim that the new product ushers in a new era for SQL Server customers, enabling simplified, intelligent
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AWS Outposts supports Amazon RDS. Dynatrace launches Kubernetes infrastructure support. OwnBackup Secures $50M In Funding. IGEL OS delivers Microsoft Teams Optimization with Citrix. US Signal announces VMware Cloud Verified status. The LTO Program reports record
SUSE announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs. This would make the former a market leader in enterprise Kubernetes management. The deal is expected to close before the end of October 2020, subject to customary closing conditions including receipt of regulatory approvals.
Today Liqid announced that it was working with Broadcom to deliver the first PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen 4.0 Fabric Reference Design Kit (RDK). This RDK should help the adoption of PCIe 4.0 in the data center. The companies have also built managed-fabric solution powered by Liqid Command Center orchestration software and Broadcom PEX88000 PCIe Gen 4.0
Today IBM Storage announced improvements and updates around improving its customers journey into most efficiently leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). These updates include a new IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) 5000 for long-term storage capacity. The IBM COS storage engine has been completely modernized. And IBM Spectrum Discover will be incorporated into Red Hat OpenShift environments.
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