Today Pivotal Software, Inc. announced the new alpha version of its Pivotal Application Service (PAS) on Kubernetes. The company also announced other new products based on PAS features that are aimed at improving the developer and operator experience when using Kubernetes.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE and Seagate partner to maximize SSD performance. SUSE Manager 4 released. StorCentric acquires Vexata. HP refreshes its commercial desktop portfolio. Cisco intends to acquire Acacia. Juniper releases Juke 2.2. Hammerspace DaaS now available

Today Tachyum Inc. announced that is has finalized a Series A funding round that netting the company $25 million. The funding round was led by the private equity investor group IPM and had participation of the Slovak Government. The funding raised is aimed at bringing the company’s Prodigy Processor Universal Chip to market by the

Today Qumulo is releasing one new flash-centric hardware platform and announcing two others that will be out next month. At the same time, they’re also announcing software updates that improve their write performance by up to 40% on all-flash platforms like their new hardware. Qumulo was founded in 2012 and primarily provides hybrid cloud products.

Today Super Micro Computer launched the industry's first family of server and storage systems that support EDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Storage Form Factor) NVMe drives. Supermicro (Super Micro Computer Incorporated, SMCI) was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest growing IT companies in the world. Supermicro provides a wide range of products and

Today Cloudian announced HyperStore Xtreme their newest private cloud storage offering. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and primarily provides file and object storage software. This has been a productive month for Cloudian, just last week, we covered the announcement of their object storage solution for VMware Cloud.

Yesterday Microsoft announced that they had expanded the availability of their HC series virtual machines (VMs) to Azure's East US region. The series was previously available only in West US 2, so HC series VMs are now an option in two regions, East US and West US 2. 

Xilinx announced that it had met a significant milestone: Xilinx just shipped the first wave of Versal AI Core Series and Prime Series units to customers. Xilinx was founded in 1984 and primarily sells programmable devices as well as associated services and support. One of the founders of Xilinx, Ross Freeman, is credited with the

Today at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its new high-end storage platform, HPE Primera. Primera is designed for “all” mission-critical applications and leverages the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, HPE InfoSight. HPE Primera will both expand and advance the companies Intelligent Data Platform portfolio that is designed to accelerate application