Today NetApp made a series of announcements regarding cloud connectivity and AI. On the storage side, NetApp has announced an all new AFF A800 all-flash array. ONTAP has been updated ONTAP to version 9.4. And the company announced new intelligent cloud services including NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Dell refreshes its laptops, monitors, and mobile workstations. Samsung begins mass production of 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM for automobiles. Cohesity launches cloud backup solution. NAKIVO releases Backup & Recovery v7.4. Pivot3 has tremendous first

Western Digital reported its earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2018 that ended March 30, 2018. Overall their numbers were good with great improvements over the same time last year in almost all cases. Western Digital stock was a bit bumpier than its earning reports but potentially making it a good buying opportunity.

This week the new storage hardware and flash drive developer, Storbyte, came out of stealth with a new innovation on SSD technology. Storbyte’s new, patented ECO•FLASH comes with the promise of maximizing efficiency, normalizing and improving IOPS and performance, increasing rack density, and eliminating the wear-leveling and life expectancy conditions associated with conventional flash memory.

Today at Dell Technologies World 2018, Dell Technologies and Microsoft announced that they were working together to delver a joint Internet of Things (IoT) solution. The new solution will be a secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud solution that will utilize Dell Edge Gateways, VMware Pulse IoT Center, and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge. This combination aims to simplify

Today Dell EMC has announced the addition of native asynchronous replication in XIOS 6.1 for XtremIO all-flash storage arrays. Until now, replication for XtremIO has been handled by software tools like Dell EMC RecoverPoint for snapshot-based replication or Site Recovery Manager for VMware shops. There’re also the options of pairing XtremIO and Dell EMC VPLEX for

Today At Dell Technologies World 2018, Dell EMC made several new product announcements around improving the modern data center with new levels of performance and efficiency. The new products include what Dell EMC is calling the world's fastest storage array, the PowerMax, an end-to-end engineered NVMe array that is also ready for NVMe over Fabrics

Today At Dell Technologies World 2018, Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company, announced its latest generation of Viewtrust, its risk management and continuous compliance monitoring solution. The latest generation brings in new SaaS capabilities to enhance scalability, performance and serviceability. The company is also announcing new disaster recovery capabilities and availability of the SAP Health solution

Today at Dell Technologies World 2018, Dell Technologies announced it is investing in new programs, incentives and solutions designed to fast track its channel partners’ delivery of digital, IT, security and workforce transformations for their customers. With 5,000 partners in attendance, the company will be announcing new Advantage framework, a new Dell EMC Ready Stack