Through a customer communiqué last week, NetApp announced it would be ending its NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS). On top of that, the company is ending its NKS on HCI & Cloud Volumes on HCI. The services will be discontinued on April 30, 2020.

Today at GTC, BOXX Technologies announced its new BOXX FLEXX data center platform. Billed as NVIDIA-powered, the new platform houses several NVIDIA RTX GPUs. On top of that, the platform houses several CPUs and supports NVIDIA GPU virtualization software for remote workstations.  BOXX is making a few other product announcements at GTC as well.

Although StorONE is a relative newcomer to the storage market, since 2012, the company has developed The Enterprise Storage Platform, the technology behind their software-defined storage (SDS) product “S1.” An Enterprise Storage platform is evolving Software Defined Storage so that it provides maximum performance, supports all use cases (Block, File, Object )and all protocols (Fibre,

Today, Dell announced several Dell Technologies AI solutions. The solutions include Dell EMC HPC Ready Architecture for AI and Data Analytics, as well as two new validated architectures specifically for data analytics. Dell Technologies has been the parent company of Dell and Dell EMC ever since Dell acquired EMC in 2015. Dell was founded in

As Covid-19 continues to change how daily work its conducted, more and more companies are adjusting to the pandemic as more employees become remote workers. VMware also announced some changes it is making to benefit its customers and employees in these trying times. At the same time the companies is making multiple different contributions to

Today, Alluxio announced the addition of Alluxio Structured Data Service (SDS) to Alluxio 2.2. SDS features data catalog and transformation services. The company develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Today VMware hit us with a deluge of announcements about their Kubernetes platform, VMware Tanzu. There have been a lot of name changes and even a few new features since we covered their announcement of Tanzu and the incorporation of NSX Service Mesh last year. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and cloud computing,

Today, Red Hat released Ceph Storage 4. Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable storage solution. Red Hat was founded in 1993 as an open-source software provider and advocate. Today it is still one of the most well-known open-source developers, providing a wide range of home and enterprise software products and services, including a Linux

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Nexsan releases new BEAST Elite models. KIOXIA adds provisioner service to KumoScale. Insight Partners completes acquisition of Veeam. Datrium adds five new patents. StorONE buys Storage Switzerland. NVIDIA acquires SwiftStack.