Today NetApp announced a new object storage device for smaller environments with the NetApp StorageGRID SG100. The SG100 will be a turnkey solution for object stores that leverages the StorageGRID admin and gateway node software. This software also includes StorageGRID load balancer, what the company calls a critical component to operating object storage.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a major new version of its storage solution benchmark, designed to help IT managers make better purchasing, configuration and optimization decisions.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cisco Acquires Slido and IMImobile. Atempo updates Tina and Miria. Arcserve X Series released. XenData launches two LTO appliances. AWS announced new storage instances at re:Invent. Firebolt launches with $37 million in

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TS-832PX, the company’s newest 8-bay NAS highlighted by two 10GbE SFP+, 2.5GbE RJ45 ports and a PCIe Gen2 x2 slot for added flexibility. The TS-832PX also supports multi-cloud backup, cloud storage gateways, remote access, AI photo management and others to help small businesses build an effective

Today Dell Technologies announced an update to its Dell EMC for Microsoft Azure Stack portfolio with the launch of a new offering, the Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. According to Dell, this new system is design to do one thing, optimize the operational experience of Microsoft’s next generation of Azure Stack

Today Lightbits Labs released LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private, hybrid, and edge deployments. This 0.1 release is said to further enhance high-performance, scalability, and low latency. This is also another step on the path or the company’s vision of enabling organizations to unleash hyperscale storage for private clouds, but at

Today Kubernetes released its third major release of 2020 with Kubernetes 1.20. This release has a massive 44 enhancements. Of the 44, 11 have graduated to stable, 15 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) involves using a server’s local storage, coupled with software-defined storage (SDS), to create a virtual SAN whose storage is accessible from all the nodes in an HCI cluster. Using HCI, storage and compute are managed from the same console. To add compute and storage in a HCI cluster you only need to

With all that is going on in the world – many if not all events are now online. This includes the annual Synology live event, Synology 2021 AND BEYOND.  The company is teasing us with some great updates and gives us some promise for 2021. They mainly covered Synology DSM 7.0, Hybrid Cloud, their new