Today Fungible announced what it is calling, the Fungible Data Center. This solution is said to be a comprehensive, turnkey that offers a multi-tenant, secure data center solution. The main thrust of the solution is to transform data centers from rigid, complex, and expensive silos into simple, highly efficient, and on-demand powerhouses. Fungible states that

Pure Storage has marked its fifth anniversary of introducing FlashBlade, exhibiting a remarkable $1B in sales. FlashBlade, unveiled in March 2016, has a rapid growth and impact in the storage industry. According to the company, this platform is used by more than 25% of the Fortune 100. Pure Storage is considered a pioneer in delivering

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. SonicWall expands its firewall lineup. Scality updates RING8. Alluxio integrates with RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark 3.0. Aerospike announces Kubernetes Operator. Hammerspace 4.6 is available in AWS Marketplace. StarWind launches free

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. GIGABYTE announces support for AMD EPYC 7003. NETGEAR announces the new Nighthawk Mesh MK83 router. NetApp launches Spot Wave. AWS announced new EC2 instances. TEAMGROUP T-CREATE line announced. Diamanti announces Spektra

Of all the technologies in the datacenter, none are evolving more rapidly than network connectivity. 20 years ago, 1GbE networking was considered exotic, and the infrastructure required to support it (e.g., NICs, switches, and cables) were expensive and rare. Three years ago, 10GbE networks were state-of-the-art, but now 20, 40, and even 100GbE networks have

Today Dell Technologies announced a major refresh of its popular Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio with 17 new models. This refresh comes on the heels of the AMD EPYC 7003 processor announcement earlier this week and before the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) coming soon. The refresh will contain Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525,

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 the Lenovo Data Center Group announced new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions that support the recently announced AMD EPYC 7003 or 3rd generation EPYC processors. The new solutions also include ThinkAgile HX (with Nutanix) and ThinkAgile VX (with VMware vSAN) both of which will be powered by the new processors. Lenovo will

With the announcement of the new AMD EPYC 7003 processors earlier in the week the major vendors have begun adding their support. Today is Dell Technologies’ turn as they announce a refresh of their Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio, starting with the new Dell EMC PowerEdge XE8545. The refresh is said to bring adaptive compute