Today Red Hat Inc. announced the general availability of the latest version of its software-defined storage solution, Gluster 3.2. The 3.2 version comes with several new enhancements and features aimed at lower costs while improving small file performance and increasing data integrity. Gluster 3.2 will also have tighter integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. 

Today Lenovo announced its new turnkey software-defined storage (SDS) appliance, the DX8200D. The DX8200D leverages Lenovo’s x3650 M5 server platform and combines it with DataCore’s storage virtualization software, SANsymphony. The new DX8200D builds off of Lenovo’s other SDS offerings announced last year.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. Hedvig raises an additional $21.5 million in series C Funding. Cisco and Docker announced a partnership to automate containers for UCS. According to a recent IDC report, Toshiba was the fastest growing HDD and

Today SwiftStack announced the availability of its latest software release, SwiftStack 5. The latest release comes with several new enhancements and features, the most notable being its Cloud Sync feature that can replicate data bidirectionally between the four Google Cloud Storage offerings, as well as other cloud provider’s solutions. Other enhancements include multi-region erasure coding,

This week Microsoft announced the availability to download Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). The new update contains new features to enable more modern application capabilities, running in locations without connections to Azure and new infrastructure and security enhancements. Azure Stack will be priced on a pay-as-you-use model.

Today Dell EMC indicated that it would cease production and marketing of its all-NVMe flash storage array, the DSSD D5. With only a year since its announcement, that makes a quick rise and demise for the D5 as it could have been the highest performing array on the market. Dell EMC will hope to take the

Today Avere Systems announced that it has added support for the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS). This support gives joint customers the best of both worlds: the object storage scalability provided from ECS and the ability to integrate existing file-based applications and maintain

Today Scality announced its turnkey, 24/7 monitoring solution for Scality RING object storage platform and its S3-focused products, Scality HALO Cloud Monitor. HALO can deliver transformative analytics of customers’ managed private cloud that helps both streamline business as well as provide continuous uptime. Scality is also announcing a new program, Scality’s Dedicated Care Service (DCS),

Today Cohesity announced that it would be integrating with Pure Storage to bring faster data protection and recovery. Not only will this native integration speed up data protection performance, but users will also be able to leverage the public cloud aiding in long-term data retention and accelerating DevOps with, according to the companies, instantaneous copies