DataDirectNetworks (DDN) & Western Digital announced that DDN would be buying Western Digital’s IntelliFlash division as part of a new partnership. This comes as something of a surprise, Western Digital updated their IntelliFlash lineup only a few months ago, as we covered in both June and July. DataDirect Networks (DDN) was founded in 1998 and is privately held. It

Today Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, the G4 Instance. This new instance is designed to accelerate machine learning (ML) inferencing while providing the most cost-effective ML inference in the industry for applications. The new instance are also great for graphics-intensive

Kubernetes has announced its third release this year with Kubernetes 1.16. The latest version has 31 enhancements in total: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. The main this of the current release are customer resources, overhauled metrics, and volume extension. Some companies, such as Canonical, announced full

At its annual event at TheTimesCenter in New York City, Synology Inc. held its gathering to showcase its technologies. The company is celebrating its past 20 years of innovations this go around looking back at how it evolved along the way. And there were a few announcements made as well. 

Oracle OpenWorld is happening right now in San Francisco and the company is announcing several new innovations to is data management portfolio. The innovations announced center around making easier, faster, and safer for customers to run their mission critical workloads with Oracle, be in in the cloud, on-premises, and via Exadata Cloud at Customer. Not

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle and VMware, Inc. announced that they were expanding their partnership in order to help customers enjoy the technology of both as they move to the cloud. This expanded partnership specifically supports customers’ hybrid cloud strategies by allowing them to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Customers

Today, Cloudian belatedly announced the creation of EDGEMATRIX, a majority-owned subsidiary led by Hiroshi Ohta, a Cloudian co-founder.EDGEMATRIX was founded on April 26th, 2019 according to Cloudian's Japanese language about page. The new company focus on providing solutions for artificial intelligence (AI) processing of big data at the edge. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and has previously

Today, at Oracle Open World in San Francisco, Intel Corporation and Oracle announced that Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory will be incorporated into Oracle’s next generation Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M. According to Oracle, Exadata powers Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Applications, and high-performance database infrastructure at most of the world’s leading banks, telecoms, and

Walt Disney Studios has announced a five year partnership with Microsoft to make movies in the Cloud. Through this partnership, Disney’s goal is to innovate and redefine it’s workflow for content creation, production, and distribution utilizing the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The Walt Disney Studios’ StudioLAB, an internal technology test hub, will be taking charge