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Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: AMD, MemSQL, OWC, Ivanti, Nasuni, & TEAMGROUP

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Microsoft 365 leverages AMD EPYC VMs for higher performance. MemSQL changes name to SingleStore. OWC acquires BRU. Ivanti updates its Unified Endpoint Manager. Nasuni named a Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Partner. TEAMGROUP

OVHcloud Managed Bare Metal Essentials
Enterprise  ◇  Server

OVHcloud Managed Bare Metal Essentials Announced

Today the US subsidiary of OVHcloud (OVHcloud US) announced the mouthful that is the OVHcloud Managed Bare Metal Essentials powered by VMware. The company states that this is a first of its kind, managed Bare metal infrastructure. On top of the infrastructure, the company upgraded its highly customizable bare metal servers and offered them with

KIOXIA XD6
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

KIOXIA XD6 Series PCIe Gen4 Announced

Today KIOXIA America, Inc. continued its push into PCIe Gen4 SSDs for the data center with the introduction of the KIOXIA XD6 Series. This SSD series is a Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S. The form factor and the design of the SS are made to address the specific requirements of hyperscale applications, including the

QuTS hero h4.5.1
Enterprise  ◇  Software

QNAP QuTS Hero h4.5.1 Released

Today QNAP Systems announced that it has updated the operating system for its QuTS hero NAS line with QuTS hero h4.5.1 NAS operating system. The latest update is all about enhancements and improvements including support for WORM (Write Once, Read Many) auto-committing, VM live migration, Wi-Fi WPA2 Enterprise, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Index Engines, DH2i, Catalogic, WekaIO, AppDynamics, Quest, KIOXIA, & More

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest

storcentric acquire violin
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

StorCentric Acquires Violin Systems

It its apparent quest to buy all the storage companies, StorCentric announced that it has acquired Violin Systems. With this acquisition, StorCentric adds software-defined NVMe, high-performance storage to its portfolio. This rounds out the enterprise workload demands, making StorCentric more of a one-stop-shop.

AWS Nitro Enclaves EC2
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

AWS Nitro Enclaves General Availability Announced

This week, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves. AWS Nitro Enclaves makes it easy for customers to create isolated compute environments within Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to protect their highly sensitive workloads. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory

Lexar Professional 1066x
Consumer  ◇  Memory Card

Lexar Professional 1066x SILVER Series Cards Announced

Today Lexar announced its new Lexar Professional 1066x microSDHC/microSDXC SILVER Series Cards. The card hits lots of buttons to make it really attractive: use in several popular devices, capacity up to 512GB, and fast quoted speeds, up to 160MB/s read. This seems to be a continuation of Lexar’s quality microSD cards.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

AMD To Acquire Xilinx

In yet another big consolidation in the industry, AMD announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx today. The deal is said to be an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $35 billion. The combined technology of the two vendors will create one of the largest high-performance computing companies.

StorCentric DMS
Enterprise  ◇  Software

StorCentric DMS Released

Today, StorCentric announced its Data Mobility Suite (DMS) general availability launch. DMS is the first StorCentric branded software solution. StorCentric was founded in August 2018, just two years ago. In the short time the company has existed, they have gobbled up four other storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that