This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. SwiftStack delivers 1click cloud storage. IBM and Panzura sign strategic reseller agreement. AMD releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q2. Pivot3 Partners with VMware on disaster recovery. WekaIO raises $31.7 million in Series C funding.

Today Reduxio announced that they were beginning customer evaluations of their Magellan Cloud Data Platform and plan for it to be generally available in the fall of 2019. Reduxio was founded six years ago in 2013 and since then has focused on providing data management and protection services. 

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the global supercomputer company, Cray Inc. This will broaden HPE’s ability to tackle challenges brought up by data-intensive applications, AI, and analysis. The value of the transaction is thought to be roughly $1.3 billion or $35/share of Cray in cash. 

Cisco reported its second quarter earnings for its fiscal 2019, which ended on April 27, 2019. Overall the numbers are looking pretty good. The stock has shown a slow, but steady increase. 

Recently, Supermicro introduced open private cloud solutions running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Supermicro server and storage systems. Red Hat is one of the most successful open source software companies and the world's leading enterprise Linux platform provider. Supermicro (Super Micro Computer Incorporated, SMCI) was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest

Today NetApp announced the latest version of its data management software, ONTAP 9.6. The company also announced its second end-to-end NVMe all flash array (the first being the AFF A800) aimed at the mid-range, the AFF A320. These new releases along with expanded services are geared for helping businesses modernize for hybrid multi-cloud environments while

The NetApp A800 embraces NVMe and NVMeoF in ways that are practical for the enterprise without sacrificing the data protection and availability features inherent in ONTAP for years.

Today AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) and Cray announced that they had a contract to deliver what will be the world’s fastest supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the DOE (Department of Energy). While rarely taking top place, AMD has been one of the biggest names in processing and graphics chips. Cray used to be

My lab started with a need to simplify my work load, but had big ideas attached to it. A single server purchase started it off, then it quickly snowballed as I learned more about what was possible on a budget. The lab grew bigger as the ideas became clearer. My home lab hasn’t reached the bottom of