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

Today at the Perform 2020 conference, Dynatrace announced the next generation of its Infrastructure Monitoring module in its all-in-one Software Intelligence Platform. The latest generation platform will include upgrades such as enhanced AI, expanded out-of-the-box observability and the ability to create custom metrics from log events. The company has also announced expanded support for Kubernetes

This week, VMware announced updates to its per-CPU pricing model. VMware has gone from a pricing per CPU to a pricing per 32 cores, or an additional license for CPUs that are over 32 cores. This seems to put a cost disadvantage for newer processors that have up to 64 cores, with the onus landing

ControlUp has announced its major new release in the version 8.1. In the latest release, users and given native integration with VMware Horizon and enhanced scalability. The company states that the release will also enable EUC admins to seamlessly manage Horizon environments and control enterprise-scale implementations from the ControlUp console.

Today iXsystems released both FreeNAS 11.3 as well as TrueNAS 11.3, for TrueNAS X-Series and M-Series systems. Unlike most venders that add a handful features when there is an update, iXsystems claim that they have added over 500. These updates build on the previous API and Web UI improvements and also introduce easy-setup wizards, major

Among the significant challenges faced by storage administrators are the fast-paced evolution of technologies and the operation of the ever-growing storage environments. With these challenges, managing storage systems becomes more complex, and sometimes, even substantial training is required. Administrators are required to make quick provisioning decisions, generate reports, and ensure the health of all systems