This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Asigra announces unlimited subscription license. DataCore simplifies migration to Kubernetes and Docker. Scality extends partnership with Veeam. Cloudian provides Veeam with multi-cloud storage. FalconStor renames flagship product to FalconStor Data Mastery Platform. Toshiba Memory first to sample UFS 3.0 Embedded Memory Devices. Teradici and IGEL announce expanded endpoint support for multicloud environments. NetApp announces the graduation of its third cohort. HP releases new ProBooks aimed at SMB.
Asigra Announces Unlimited Subscription License
To help alleviate the forecast of software licensing costs for MSP, Asigra announced its Unlimited Use Subscription License. The MSP works with Asigra and develops its new licensing model based off of its previous year usage and a jointly agreed upon growth commitment. This is good for the service provider as they have a fixed costs throughout the year even if their usage spikes.
DataCore Simplifies Migration To Kubernetes & Docker
DataCore released two plugins to ease the migration of enterprise applications to Kubernetes and Docker. These new plugins also provide several options for advanced data protection and recovery for dependable, predictable behavior at scale. The plugins are for the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) v1.0.0 specification available on GitHub and for the Docker Volume Plugin specification available at Docker Hub.
Scality Extends Partnership With Veeam
Scality extends its partnership with Veeam by integrating its RING software-defined storage with Veeam’s new Cloud Tier. The two companies claim this integration can reduce long-term retention costs and make the scale-out backup repository capacity virtually infinite, thereby simplifying storage management, and allowing for much faster restore times due to low latency network access to object storage.
Cloudian Provides Veeam With Multi-Cloud Storage
Cloudian has announced that is HyperStore object storage platform can integrate with Veeam’s latest Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. This integration provides the following benefits:
FalconStor Renames Flagship Product To FalconStor Data Mastery Platform
FalconStor has renamed its flagship product, FreeStor, to FalconStor Data Mastery Platform (FDMP). Aside from the name change FDMP is newly validated for AWS. Benefits include:
Toshiba Memory First To Sample UFS 3.0 Embedded Memory Devices
Toshiba Memory America has started sampling its Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 3.0 embedded flash memory devices. These new UFS devise leverage Toshiba’s 96-layer BiCS Flash 3D NAND and come in capacity of 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The new UFS devices are compliant with JEDEC UFS Ver. 3.0, including HS-GEAR4, which has a theoretical interface speed of up to 11.6 Gigabits per second per lane (x2 lanes = 23.2Gbps) while being power efficient.
Teradici & IGEL Announce Expanded Endpoint Support For Multicloud Environments
Teradici and IGEL announced a new relationship whit week that would extend PCoIP Software Client for Linux to the IGEL family of thin clients. As part of the partnership, IGEL thin client users will be able to connect to Teradici Cloud Access Software and to Amazon WorkSpaces. The companies go on to state that with Teradici Cloud Access, IGEL customers will be able to connect to virtual workstations on any private, public, or hybrid cloud and visualize remotely hosted applications with the security and performance benefits of PCoIP technology.
NetApp Announces The Graduation Of Its 3rd Cohort
At its Excellerator Demo Day, NetApp announced the graduation of its third cohort of its Excellerator program that nurtures data driven technology startups. The third batch that graduated focuses on technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Cyber Security, Analytics, applied in wide-impact areas like operations, marketing and healthcare. The six startups include CloudOptimo, InstaSafe, FirstHive, Praktice.ai, Cardiotrack and Zscore Technologies all of which were able to present their products to venture capitalists and were provided an equity-free grant of $15,000 from NetApp.
HP Releases New ProBooks Aimed At SMB
HP announced two new ProBooks aimed at the SMB market, the HP ProBook 445 G6 and HP ProBook 455 G6. Benefits include:
The HP ProBook 445 G6 and ProBook 455 G6 will be available this month starting at $549.
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