Today Lightbits Labs rolled out what it is calling the world’s first ultra-high capacity, higher performance SSD storage appliance, the SuperSSD. The company goes on to that the appliance is the industry’s first scalable, Ethernet-attached SSD solution that specifically addresses the data-storage speed, capacity and reliability needs of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
Quobyte Adds TenserFlow Support Via Plug-In
Today, April 16th, 2016, Quobyte announced the release of a TensorFlow Filesystem Plug-in that allows TensorFlow applications to integrate directly with Quobyte without passing through the operating system kernel. Quobyte was founded in 2013 and provides software-defined storage for a variety of customers including Yahoo! Japan. TensorFlow is a widely used open-source software library commonly used in
Google Next 2019 Bits
Our News Bits is a roundup that typically covers news pieces that are just small in content, not in impact. This gives content room to breath even if it comes in less than what we normally cover. This week the Google Next Show took place in San Fransico, California. While we covered the major announcement that relates to Google and
Intel Brings 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs & Optane Persistent Memory To Google Cloud
Today at the Google Cloud Next 2019 Event in San Francisco, Intel and Google Cloud announced their new strategic partnership aimed at accelerating hybrid clouds through seamless deployment of applications on-prem and in the cloud. The two companies are working on a new reference design, Anthos, that is based on the new 2nd Generation Intel Xeon
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5 is Now GA
At the Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pivotal announced the general availability of its Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), PCF 2.5. The latest version incorporates capabilities from important open-source projects like Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes, and Spring Cloud. The new version also leverages Platform Automation to keep the platform updated in an easier fashion.
Elastifile Cloud File Service for Google Enters GA
Elastifile announced that its Elastifile Cloud File Service for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) entered general availability this week. We previously covered Elastifile’s Cloud File Service for Google Cloud when it was just entering early access late last year.
Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 – Global Survey
Cloud Foundry Foundation, a company aiming to drive awareness and adoption of the Cloud Foundry open source projects for the enterprise, kicked off its annual North American Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania today, where they released a report with their findings of a study revealing trends of how companies treat digital transformation as a constant adaptation
DriveScale Adds NVMe over TCP Availability to Composable Platform
DriveScale, a company dedicated to re-imaging static compute infrastructure as adaptable and programmable, making data centers a composable scale-out cloud, announced today the support for NVMe over TCP for its flagship DriveScale Composable Platform.
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (PMM)
Intel has talked about Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (PMM) publicly for over a year now, espousing the benefits of a new tier of data centric architecture that sits between DRAM and Optane DC SSDs, with sequentially slower SSD and HDD media cascading down the pyramid to tape at the archive level. The goal with
AWS Introduces New Features at Santa Clara Summit
Amazon Web Services (AWS from here on) announced several new capabilities and services. AWS introduced Concurrency Scaling for Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, AWS App Mesh, and AMD-powered Amazon EC2 M5ad and R5ad instances.




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