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.
Today, Dell Technologies announced new advancements to its Dell Technologies Cloud. A big advancement is the new subscription-based pricing model, that Dell believes will make the service easier to buy as well as lower the price barrier for entry. Dell is claiming that it provides the industry’s fastest hybrid cloud deployment, allowing a growing number
This week Wasabi announced its new Reserved Capacity Storage (RCS) pricing model. The company sees this as a disruptive model as it allows customers to buy a reserved amount of cloud storage at a fixed price for a certain period of time, 1, 3, or 5 years. With this pricing model, it will be easier for customers
Today AMD rolled out two new second generation EPYC processors to add more performance options so customers can meet the right performance to workload. AMD is adding yet another 64 core CPU in the 7662 as well as a new 32 core model as well with the 7532. The new CPUs will come with all of the
At Oracle Open World London, the company made several announcements. The three key announcements include the availability of Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform. Oracle has created a new database that supports all data. And Oracle has expanded its interoperability partnership with Microsoft.
Today IBM introduced a new FlashSystem Family with the idea of keeping things simple while meeting the storage needs for entry-level to high-end systems. The new family leverages a common software platform that is said to work across all deployment types (bare metal, virtualized, container, and hybrid multicloud) and will support customers’ existing storage devices
Nexsan, part of the StorCentric family, released its new E-Series 18F (E18F) storage platform. The E18F leverages quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology that should allow for better performance than HDDs while providing a cost-effective flash method for workloads. Nexsan also announced that it was adding RoCE and private blockchain technology to its Assureon solution.
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