Around this time last year, NetApp introduced several new offerings into its Big Data analytics portfolio. Among the offerings announced was the company's latest all-flash array (AFA), the NetApp EF570. The EF570 is a midrange AFA that is designed for high performance, high availability, simplicity, and a strong price-to-performance ratio for a 2U system. 

Today Violin Systems announced a new addition to its Extreme Performance Storage Platform family, the Violin XVS 8. The XVS 8 offers to give users what they have come to expect form Violin gear, namely high performance coupled with low latency as well as enterprise-class data services. The XVS8 is aimed at uses cases such

Intel recently extended its field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration platform portfolio with the addition of the new Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA. The Stratix 10 SX is manufactured on Intel's 14nm process and leverages the Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs, providing data center developers a

This week Kubernetes announced its third release of the year, version 1.12. As with all new versions, 1.12 adds improvements and graduating stability. This release also introduces new security features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), and Kubelet TLS Bootstrap.

Amazon Web Service, Inc. (AWS) recently announced the availability of new High Memory instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Current Amazon EC2 High Memory instances, aimed to run large in-memory databases including production deployments of SAP HANA, deliver 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory – with 18TB and 24TB instances expected to arrive

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. At Microsoft Ignite 2018 there were several announcements that either small or would potentially get wiped out by some of the

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) announced a host of updates and enhancements at Next 2018. We covered some of their appliance updates here. This article will cover three of their other major announcements; Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Container Platform enhancements, Smart Data Center updates, and the addition of Lumada Maintenance Insights to

Today at its SpringOne Platform Conference in Washington DC, Pivotal Software Inc. announced several updates to its Kubernetes and Hybrid/Multi-Cloud platforms. The company announced updates to its Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platform, Pivotal Container Service (PKS) based on Kubernetes, and its Pivotal Applications Service (PAS). These updates will simplify and expand multi-cloud support to customers.

Nasuni today announced an update to their Cloud File Services. The update will impact all of Nasuni's services which share a common core UniFS file system. UniFS stores files and metadata in object storage then caches active data wherever high-performance access is needed on Nasuni Edge Appliances – stateless virtual machines or hardware appliances that