Today, Rancher Labs released the latest version of their eponymous software, Rancher 2.4. Rancher is a Kubernetes Cluster management platform. Darren Shepherd, Shannon Williams, Sheng Liang, and Will Chan founded Rancher Labs in 2014. The company provides software to assist with Kubernetes and Docker workflows.

This week, VMware went into more detail describing the new Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) algorithm, improved in the latest VMware vSphere, version 7. VMware now uses an advanced DRS logic and a new DRS UI in the vSphere Client. With these enhancements, VMware DRS focuses on a better solution to support modern workloads.

Today, XenData announced its upcoming Multi-Site Sync service for cloud object storage. The service creates a global file system accessible worldwide via XenData Cloud File Gateways. XenData was founded in 2001. The company focuses on public cloud and on-premises data storage systems.

Today VMware has made some major announcements from expanding Tanzu to releasing vSAN 7. In another major announcement the company is releasing the latest version of vSphere with VMware vSphere 7. While there are several new features and capabilities announced, the key feature is native support for Kubernetes, allowing the ability to run containers and

NetApp has announced the acquisition of Talon Storage in an effort to enhance their cloud data services portfolio. Talon Storage is a software-defined storage solutions company that focuses on helping enterprises centralize and consolidate their IT storage infrastructure to the public clouds. NetApp indicates that the addition of Talon’s FAST software, combined with their own

iXsystems announced today that it was making some changes around its popular open source storage software. iXsystems has two major products, the ever popular FreeNAS and the enterprise TrueNAS. With the next update the two will become one, with a few caveats.

Today Red Hat announced the generally availability of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16, the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Red Hat states that the latest version comes with over a thousand enhancements and new features that, in their words, will lay the foundation for enterprise and telco workloads from programmable IaaS for

Today, Cloudian announced that it would be adopting Veeam’s just released version 10 Veeam Availability Suite. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Veeam’s release of v10 to general availability yesterday. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on providing file and object storage software, although they recently spun off an edge AI-focused subsidiary.

In December 2019 Dell Technologies announced the latest version of Dell EMC’s out-of-band management solution, iDRAC9 4.00.00.00. The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make server administrators more productive, allowing them to deploy, monitor, update, and manage PowerEdge servers, both locally and remotely. In the latest firmware release, Dell EMC introduced many