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Enterprise  ◇  Hyperconverged

VMware vSphere & vSAN 7 Update 2 Out

Today VMware Inc, announced updates to its two most popular solutions, VMware vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Update 2. The updates are aimed to help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and AI-ready; scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security, and simplifies operations. More specifically vSphere 7 U2

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Dell, Nexsan, Robin.io, KIOXIA, OpenDrives, Spectra Logic, CTERA, & Cloudian

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Dell Technologies reported fourth-quarter and full-year Earnings. Nexsan Assureon Cloud Edition announced. Robin.io supports IBM Cloud Satellite. KIOXIA is now sampling what they call the world’s thinnest 1TB UFS 3.1. OpenDrives

Enterprise  ◇  Hyperconverged

NetApp HCI Appliance To Be Phased Out

Yesterday Chris Mellor ran a story about NetApp phasing out its HCI appliance, the original article can be found here. This comes as no shock at all as most of the major vendors seem to be moving in the direction of getting more away from hardware and into software/cloud-based products and services. The NetApp HCI

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Dell Technologies Multi-Cloud Storage, Data Protection Updated

Today Dell Technologies’ multi-cloud storage and data protection portfolios received updates that aim to hit the popular buttons of protection, simplicity, and flexibility. The new storage and protection revolve around the Power- line, specifically PowerProtect for Multi-cloud and PowerScale for Multi-cloud.

HPE SimpliVity
Enterprise  ◇  Hyperconverged

HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 Released with Edge Emphasis

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 with an eye toward enterprise edge infrastructure. The latest enhancements to this hyper-converged stack include advanced data protection thanks to StoreOnce. Now SimpliVity customers can embrace native backup to the cloud with optional or additional centralized backup for compliance. The SimpliVity update also includes CSI plugin

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Alation, Hammerspace, DDN, Supermicro, Kaseya, Arcserve, StorageCraft, CloudPhysics, & More

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have.  Alation 2021.1 hits general availability. Hammerspace partners with Supermicro on Kubernetes. DDN has record-breaking 2020. Supermicro announces multi-node A100 systems. Kaseya acquires RocketCyber. Arcserve and StorageCraft merge. CloudPhysics acquired by HPE.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

NVIDIA & NetApp Work To Simplify AI

NVIDIA and NetApp announced that they are working together to simplify and increase the speed of AI deployments. This expands other partnerships NetApp has gone into surrounding AI, including last year’s partnership with Run:AI and NetApp ONTAP AI. This go-round the two companies are combining both NetApp and NVIDIA hardware along with ONTAP AI software.

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Veeam Backup & Replication v11 Released

Today Veeam Software announced the general availability of Veeam Backup & Replication v11. The latest release brings over 200 new features and enhancements that bring what the company is calling the most advanced data protection solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical and Enterprise workloads. The latest version can handle all the complexities of all the major

Samsung PM9A3 E1.S
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Samsung PM9A3 E1.S Goes Into Mass Production

Today Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it has begun mass production of the Samsung PM9A3 E1.S. The company claims that this is its most advanced line of data center SSDs. It is also said to be the industry’s first data center SSD that is compliant with the latest OCP standards.

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Nutanix Announces New Ransomware Protections

Nutanix has announced more ransomware protection for Nutanix Cloud Platform. These are said to include new threat monitoring and detection, as well as more granular data replication and robust access controls, natively built into the Nutanix stack. The new protections run the gamut of everything Nutanix offers helping users protect against attacks across multiple cloud