Intel has announced the Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series, the company’s 2nd-gen high-performing, persistent memory tier for 3rd-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors on 4-socket platforms. The new line of PMem is quoted to deliver an average of 25% more in memory bandwidth compared to the last generation, 12-15 watts of thermal design power (TDP), and

Today Dell Technologies announced its latest storage family to combine storage software and server hardware, Dell EMC PowerScale. This technological combination aims to set the standard on how companies capture and capitalize on unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, and, important in this modern age, social media content. PowerScale can be used elastically by

VMware has announced the intention to acquire Lastline, a cybersecurity company and breach detection platform provider. VMware is a provider of cloud computing and virtualization software and services. With this addition, VMware is looking to enhance its SDN network virtualization and security platform, NSX. The company affirms that the partnership is a step forward for

Today, Scality extended their Zenko multi-cloud data controller’s integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Long time readers may remember when we covered the initial release of Scality Zenko two years ago, in 2018.  Scality was founded in 2009. The company has two primary products.  The first is the Zenko multi-cloud controller, which is the focus

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