Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced several upgrades to HPE Primera and HPE Nimble. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.

Today, Pure Storage released Purity for FlashArray (Purity//FA) version 6.0. Purity//FA is the company’s eponymous flagship software. John Colgrove and John Hayes founded Pure Storage 11 years ago in 2009. The company sells storage-as-a-service using all-flash servers bundled with their custom software.

Today Data Dynamics made a couple of announcements the main being the introduction of its Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform. The company also announced Data Dynamics StorageX 8.2 as well as the release of Insight AnalytiX 1.1. StorageX 8.2 is said to simplify and accelerate the movement of file data to S3 object storage, for

This week, NetApp announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Spot, a compute management and cost optimization on the public clouds company, to establish leadership in Application Driven Infrastructure (ADI). Spot, a cloud platform company, provides a combination of tools for visibility and automation, that drive continuous optimization of workloads in a

In March, iXsystems announced that starting from the upcoming version 12.0, FreeNAS and TrueNAS packages will be unified into a single image under the name of TrueNAS. This week iXsystems has confirmed a new project called TrueNAS SCALE. With this new Open Source initiative, the company proposes to take some steps forward in software-defined infrastructure

Amazon has announced two new features to its Amazon FSx for Windows File Server service: storage size scaling and throughput capacity scaling. The service is deeply integrated with the AWS ecosystem, and it is built on Windows Server, delivering a wide range of administrative features. It provides fully managed, native, highly reliable, and scaling file

Today, Cloudian released HyperIQ. HyperIQ is a software tool to help customers better monitor their usage of Cloudian storage services. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on providing file and object storage software, although they recently spun off an edge AI-focused subsidiary.

Today Dell technologies announced that it will be accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) workloads through Dell EMC Ready Solutions with VMware. More specifically the Dell EMC Ready Solutions are based on VMware Cloud foundation and comes with the new features of VMware vSphere 7 that include Bitfusion. Dell is the first company to leverage capabilities in

This week we found that Samsung expands NAND flash production capacity in Pyeongtaek, Korea, to address mid- to long-term demands, specifically for the market’s emerging technologies. Construction is already well underway at the facility, with mass production of their V-NAND memory slated for a start sometime in the second half of 2021. Samsung indicates that