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.

Recently, Dell EMC released an updated version of their Cloud Tiering Appliance, or CTA. Some of our readers may already be using this completely free virtual software appliance from Dell EMC, some may know about it but haven’t utilized it, and some may ask “what’s a CTA?” Allow us to explain.

Announced at GTC and becoming available as an AIC at ISC, NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now coming to Google Cloud. Considering it has only been roughly a month since the initial announcement, this is a really fast move for a GPU to a major public cloud. Google is the first major public cloud to introduce

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Actifio launched a Data Protection service for GCP Bare Metal. Actifio also announced a lawsuit against Rubrik. TEAMGROUP launches CARDEA Ceramic C440 SSD. Ahana announces Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB availability. Commvault and Microsoft partner to

Today Fujitsu announced that it was enhancing its strategic partnership with NetApp for data management. The Companies announced that the four new storage series of Fujitsu ETERNUS leveraging NetApp data management software. The companies state that the deepening or their partnership can help make customers more efficient at management and the rapid us of data,

KIOXIA has successfully demonstrated an E3.S full-function development vehicle in conjunction with a leading server original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF), also known as E3, is designed to maximize system density, efficiency, and simplicity. It is purpose-built for servers and storage.

Today, Diamanti released a new major version of its hybrid cloud Kubernetes control plane and operating system, Diamanti Spektra 3.0. This comes as a surprise. The company released Diamanti Spektra 2.4 just two months ago, on April 1st. We did not expect to see a new major release so soon after the last update. Diamanti