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.
Today, Lenovo unveiled the Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 and the ThinkSystem DM7100 (pictured below). The ThinkAgile MX1021 is a Microsoft-based edge appliance. ThinkSystem DM710 appliances are storage solutions. Lenovo was founded in 1984 is well known for its endpoint solutions as well as their infrastructure solutions like ThinkSystem servers and the ThinkAgile software-defined portfolio.
Today, DataStax released the code for an Apache Cassandra Kubernetes operator. DataStax was founded in March 2010. Their eponymous flagship product is DataStax is built on the open-source Apache Cassandra database.
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