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.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. released the third-generation of its High Bandwidth Memory 2E (HBM2E), also known as “Flashbolt.” The latest generation of HBM2E is 16GB making it well suited for HPC systems while also helping with supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics, and state-of-the-art graphics systems. Aquabolt will continue to be produced while this generation is in

Today, MayaData announced it received additional funding totaling to twenty-six million dollars from investors, including AME Cloud Ventures, DataCore Software, and Insight Partners. MayaData was founded in 2011 under the name CloudByte and operated under that name until 2017 when it rebranded itself as MayaData. In both incarnations, MayaData specialized in enterprise containers like Kubernetes.