This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Morro Data now supports Azure active directory. Panzura announces Mobile 2.0. E8 Storage announces InfiniBand support. Scality raises $60 million in funding. Portworx and Intel announce reference architecture for containerized applications. Virtual Instruments extends its integration with Cisco. Commvault expands AWS GovCloud solutions. Pivotal goes public.
Morro Data Now Supports Azure Active Directory
Morro Data released its CloudNAS platform with support for Azure Active Directory. This new support is in addition to its existing support for local Active Directory. This is especially appealing for CloudNAS users that leverage Office365. Features include:
Panzura Announces Mobile 2.0
Panzura announced the latest version of its Mobile Client for its Freedom Line, version 2.0. The latest version is available now with key features and benefits including:
E8 Storage Announces InfiniBand Support
E8 Storage announced the availability of InfiniBand support to its high performance, NVMe storage solutions. Working tightly with its long-standing partner, Mellanox, this support will allow HPC customers to hit even higher speeds and lower latency that they need for their workloads. E8 Storage software and appliances with InfiniBand support are available now
Scality Raises $60 Million In Funding
Scality announced that it was able to secure an addition $60 million in funding. This brings the company’s total to $152 million. The funding round was arranged by Silverpeak, a leading Europe-based technology-focused independent investment bank. Scality intends to use the newly raised capital for engineering to innovate in ways that transform IT and simplify the path to creating value with data.
Portworx & Intel Announce Reference Architecture For Containerized Applications
Portworx announced that it has partnered with Intel to release reference architecture that illustrates how data center and cloud architects can build enterprise scale container and microservices infrastructure using Portworx and Intel technology to achieve unprecedented data performance, high availability and resiliency. Portworx goes on to state that the new reference architecture can reduce TCO and increase flexibility and scalability. The companies also completed benchmarks including:
Portworx Reference Architecture
Virtual Instruments Extends Its Integration With Cisco
Virtual Instruments announced that Cisco SAN Telemetry Streaming and AppDynamics applications intelligence platform are integrated with VirtualWisdom 5.6. This integration allows both VirtualWisdom and AppDynamics to share a common view of the infrastructure consumed by business applications. Users of SAN Telemetry Streaming are given holistic visibility into Fibre Channel SAN Fabrics along the entire Cisco MDS 32GB portfolio. The combination is aimed at ensure the highest availability and performance.
Commvault Expands AWS GovCloud Solutions
Commvault announced that it was expanding its services with AWS specifically through AWS GovCloud for government agencies. Benefits to the new customer group include:
Pivotal Goes Public
Today Pivotal Software went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PVTL). The companies IPO was $15/share. The stock opened strong and dipped down a bit as of this writing, however the market as a whole was in a sell off mood this morning.
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