This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. IGEL expands endpoint management capabilities. Ivanti Acquires MobileIron & Pulse Secure. Rubrik announces new AWS innovations. GigaSpaces launches InsightEdge portfolio. Actifio to be acquired by Google. Robin.IO Robin Cloud Native Storage qualifies

Today, Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) unveiled a series of new ThinkSystem end-to-end data management solution updates. These new updates include Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series Storage Manager OS, ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring 2.0, Lenovo DB720S Fibre Channel Switch, and ThinkSystem DM5100F All-Flash Storage Array. Lenovo indicates that new updates will allow customers of all sizes, with

Today Dell Technologies announced several security advancements across several areas including supply chain, services, devices, and infrastructure. Aside from the supply chain (which is in and of itself a big deal), the company is offering protection through the boot process and dynamic system lockdown. Dell doesn’t stop at its own products but extends the data

Today Nutanix announced new hybrid cloud capabilities for its unstructured data storage offerings, Nutanix Objects and Files. These storage-focused enhancements are said to enable customers to deploy an easy-to-use, scale out storage fabric across their different cloud environments to simplify data management and effectively manage costs. The new features span from Edge, to private and

Last week, QNAP has announced the official release of Qmiix, their workflow automation solution. With Qmiix, QNAP users can manage their daily tasks and enhance cross-platform integrations. Last year, this solution was announced as a beta, which carried a user feedback program for further improvements. This year’s official release of Qmiix adds multiple cloud storage

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has released Proxmox VE version 6.3, the company’s server virtualization management platform. The newest update is based on Debian Buster 10.6, uses the most up-to-date, long-term support Linux kernel (5.4), and includes the latest updates from many of the leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 5.1, LXC 4.0,

With 2020 being all-around awful and a pandemic raging in most of the world, all the trade shows have been trying out the virtual thing with varying levels of success. KubeCon 2020 has suffered the same fate, and like other virtual shows, this one feels a bit subdued as well. Not surprising considering the interruption

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X enterprise QuTS hero NAS, both of which are highlighted by their Intel Xeon W-1250 processor (six-core 3.3 GHz, burst up to 4.7 GHz) and up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory. Built for bandwidth-heavy storage use cases as well as dynamic creative workflows

Dell Technologies is introducing the EXF900, a new appliance to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. Key features of this new all-flash appliance include high performance and flexible deployment. The company indicates that the object storage market is primed for a revolution based on object storage advantages, including scalability, flexibility, API-driven cloud-native architectures, and more. This