This week, Cisco has announced the General Availability of Intersight for Pure Storage Flash Array Automation. With this initial integration, Intersight seeks to facilitate infrastructure administrators to automate storage and storage-related virtualization tasks through workflows using the Intersight Workflow Designer. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure management platform that overcomes the

Today, Amazon Wed Services (AWS) opened a new region, the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. This marks a whopping 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world for AWS. Opening up a new region in South Africa gives developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations the ability to

Today NetApp introduced its vision for a for a software-defined platform, Project Astra. Developed with the Kubernetes community, Astra is said to deliver enterprise class easy-to-consume data services, storage, and application and data portability for stateful applications. NetApp sees this platform working with any Kubernetes distribution on any cloud.

Today KIOXIA America Inc. announced that its KumoScale storage software now including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones. To the uninitiated, this doesn’t sound like a big announcement. However, today’s announcement enable users to reduce the time pressures associated with backup processes for large, stateful applications such as databases, at a lower storage ‘cost.’ The clone

This week AWS has announced an update of its edge computing and data migration device, the AWS Snowball Edge. This Amazon solution was presented late in 2016 as an update to its original Snowball storage container program. AWS Snowball Edge is part of the AWS Snow Family. Snow Edge devices come in two options: Snowball

Today AMD rolled out more CPUs in their second generation AMD EPYC line. The new CPUs are the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 family that includes the 7F32, 7F72, and the one we are looking at in this review, the AMD EPYC 7F52. This isn’t a major new family release, the 7Fx2 CPUs are designed to close

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Samsung announces EUV DRAM. AWS makes several announcements. Backblaze hits an Exabyte. Quantum expands video surveillance portfolio. Kasten introduces K10 2.5. Synology VPN Plus licenses free until 09/20/2020. Aerospike announces Aerospike Cloud. FalconStor and

Earlier this month the Kubeflow community introduced Kubeflow 1.0 up from its stable and beta release of 0.7. Being one of the top contributors to Kubeflow, Cisco announced the release of Cisco Kubeflow Starter Pack. The company claims this pack will make operationalizing machine learning for large scale deployments easier.

Diamanti announced the latest version of its hybrid cloud Kubernetes control plane, Diamanti Spektra 2.4. The company states that the latest version is geared toward the most demanding mission-critical applications. This is addressed through the introduction of the Diamanti D20X, a new addition to its family of hyperconverged infrastructure.