September 17th, 2018 by Michael Rink
Quest Releases Version 9.0 KACE
Quest Software announced today the general availability of KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) 9.0, a comprehensive, multi-platform endpoint and asset management solution running on Windows and Mac operating systems. KACE is intended to help businesses provision, manage, secure and service their growing endpoint environments. 9.0 features improvements to workflow and infrastructure, as well as updates to Service Desk, asset management, endpoint communications, and security functionalities.
September 13th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
NVIDIA Launches AI Data Center Platform
At GTC in Tokyo, NVIDIA announced the launch of its new AI data center platform, the NVIDIA TensorRT Hyperscale Platform. This new platform is stated as delivering the most advanced inference accelerator for voice, video, image, and recommendation services. The platform will leverage the company’s new Tesla T4 GPUs as well as a comprehensive set of new inference software.
September 13th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
Qumulo Ups Performance & Lowers Costs For M&E
Today Qumulo Inc. announced that it was making several software innovations that will increase performance in its file storage solutions. These innovations leverage machine learning capabilities with the specific goal of transforming the media and entertainment (M&E) industry through higher performance and lower economics for tasks such as video editing, visual effects and video distribution. The new software innovations will be implemented across all Qumulo product lines.
August 28th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
Dell Technologies Announces New IoT & Edge Solutions At VMworld 2018
Today at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies announced new solutions and bundles that the company states will simplify deployment of secure, scalable solutions for edge computing and IoT use cases. The company is combining tools and technology from its portfolio as well as partners, such as Intel, for these new solutions. These IoT and edge solutions will support computer vision and machine intelligence for markets such as surveillance.
August 27th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
VMware & AWS Announce Amazon Relational Database Service On VMware
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Today at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware announced that the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) would soon be on VMware. With this service uses would be able to set up, operate, and scale databases in VMware-based software-defined data centers (SDDC) and hybrid environments as well as have the ability to migrate them to AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS. RDS can automate database management regardless of where it is deployed, having it on VMware will free up customers to focus on their core business.
August 22nd, 2018 by Michael Rink
SolarWinds Releases Server Configuration Monitor
On August 21 SolarWinds introduced their Server Configuration Monitor (SCM). At the same time, they also announced a wave of updates to their other services including their Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Virtualization Manager (VMAN), and Storage Resource Monitor (SRM). SolarWinds will publicly demonstrate its updated systems management portfolio for the first time at VMworld 2018 US in Las Vegas, Nevada, booth 2301.
August 7th, 2018 by Michael Rink
Dell EMC Announces Additional AI Centric Servers and Services
Dell EMC is expanding their Ready Solutions lineup with new offerings designed to help organizations with AI tasks. The two new products they are offering are named Deep Learning with NVIDIA, and Machine Learning with Hadoop. The new solutions are aimed at delivering faster, deeper insight while helping companies realize their potential with AI.
June 7th, 2018 by Lyle Smith
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Propels Autodesk Into The Cloud
NVIDIA has announced virtual GPUs (vGPUs), which are specifically designed to give Autodesk developers and sales technicians quick access to all their applications and products from anywhere. NVIDIA’s vGPU is a highly-advanced technology used for sharing the company’s GPUs across virtual machines and virtual applications. NVIDIA vGPU software products include GRID Virtual PC, GRID Virtual Apps, and Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation.
June 5th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
DriveScale Unveils Software Composable Infrastructure For Flash
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Today DriveScale announced what it is calling the market’s first Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI) for flash. This new innovation has been designed with cloud infrastructures in mind (specifically targeting modern applications such as NoSQL, Spark and Containers) and aims to make flash deployment more affordable and flexible. SCI for flash can help solve issues such as over-provisioning and scalability that affect cloud-native applications that are flash-based.
May 26th, 2018 by Adam Armstrong
OpenStack Summit 2018 News 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 year at OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver there were a handful of announcements that either small or would potentially get wiped out by some of the larger announcements so we have collected them here. These announcements come from companies such as Mirantis, Zuul, OpenStack Foundation, Kata Containers, Canonical, and Trilio