AppDynamics, a Cisco company, announced what it calls the industry’s first solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks and protect applications from the inside-out, Cisco Secure Application. This new solution is built natively into the AppDynamics platform and was co-innovated with Cisco Security business. It is said to provide confident application performance through

Today VMware announced the latest release of its integrated hybrid cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 (VCF). The latest version is offering improvements across the board in storage, networking, management, and security of large-scale virtual machine and container deployments. On top of this, the company is also announcing the availability of the vSAN Data Persistence

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 WekaIO announced what it refers to as a simple, fast, and scalable platform for running modern enterprise workloads, the WekaIO Limitless Data Platform. This new platform is about accelerating business outcomes and improving productivity in the hybrid cloud. The company states that its new platform is ideal for workloads such as artificial intelligence/machine learning

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. NAKIVO introduces v10.2. Quantum announces new hybrid storage arrays. Backblaze 2020 drive stats are available. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 released. Eaton Power Xpert SPD released. SUSE supports Longhorn 1.1.

Today Synology Inc. introduced three new RackStation units. These units are aimed at backup, virtualization storage, and remote work solutions. In a slightly unusual move for the company, they have also released the HAT5300 series of enterprise hard drives or Synology HDDs. These high-capacity SATA drives are specifically designed for Synology deployments.

NVIDIA has slowly but surely dominated the enterprise GPU market. In recent years, GPUs have become increasingly important and sit right alongside the CPU in necessity. NVIDIA last year introduced a new processing unit with the data processing unit or DPU. Where going to look at the three here to see what’s the difference and

Today Dell Technologies announced enhancements to its VxRail portfolio. The company released two new platforms that leverage AMD EPYC CPUs, the Dell EMC VxRail P Series, VxRail P675F and P675N. Not only do these new hyperconverged platforms leverage the fast CPUs, but they also support NVIDIA Tesla T4 and NVIDIA Tesla V100S GPUs.

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