Today VMware, Inc. announced updates and innovations to its CloudHealth and vRealize Cloud Management. These updates focus on cloud management both on-prem and SaaS. The updates are said to help customers with monitoring, securing, optimizing, and automating their VMware Cloud and native public cloud services.

Today QNAP Systems, Inc. released the latest version of its NAS operating system with QNAP QTS 4.5.2. The updates released today surround enhancements of SNMP for network device monitoring and support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) passthrough to virtual machines (VMs). Also announced today was the company’s QXG-100G2SF-E810

Today HP announced new insights-driven services all around easing IT workloads and keeping employees productive. The three main services are HP Active Care for proactive device support and maintenance; HP Proactive Insights for intelligent fleet monitoring; and HP Proactive Endpoint Management for multi-OS, endpoint management. This builds off of the announcement the company made at

We’ve previously reviewed Intel’s SSD Toolbox, a GUI application for managing and updating Intel’s SSDs. Instead of updating the software, the company up and replaced it at the end of last year with the new Intel Memory and Storage (MAS) Tool. Sometimes it is better to just start from scratch and build it the way

Last week, QNAP has announced the official release of Qmiix, their workflow automation solution. With Qmiix, QNAP users can manage their daily tasks and enhance cross-platform integrations. Last year, this solution was announced as a beta, which carried a user feedback program for further improvements. This year’s official release of Qmiix adds multiple cloud storage

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has released Proxmox VE version 6.3, the company’s server virtualization management platform. The newest update is based on Debian Buster 10.6, uses the most up-to-date, long-term support Linux kernel (5.4), and includes the latest updates from many of the leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 5.1, LXC 4.0,

Today, HPE announced additional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) subscription configurations through their Greenlake brand. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to

Today, Quantum announced that it would soon be releasing StorNext 7. The company also announced plans to introduce Quantum ATFS and expand their ActiveScale line before the end of the month. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In 2001, they sold their manufacturing division to Maxtor (which was later bought

Today, Qumulo released a new data encryption service they are calling Qumulo Secure. Qumulo also announced several other new services they expect to release before the end of the calendar year. Qumulo provides a distributed file system for network-attached storage (NAS) that offers customers tremendous flexibility in deployment. Earlier this year, we reviewed Qumulo’s software