Today NetApp made several announcements around hardware, software, and cloud. One of the hardware announcements was the new NetApp FAS500f. The FAS500f is the company’s first all flash capacity array, and leverages QLC SSDs.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cohesity and AWS to deliver Data Management as a Service (DMaaS). Lenovo releases ThinkIoT Smarter Store Solution. Privacera releases Platform 4.0. AMD EPYC processors power Microsoft Azure Data Explorer. Login VSI releases Login Enterprise

Today QNAP Systems, Inc officially released the latest update to their NAS operating system, QNAP QTS 4.5.1. QNAP is continuing to innovate their NAS OS with enhancements to virtualization, networking, and management functionalities. While QNAP has made several updates and enhancements key ones include VM live migration, Wi-Fi 6 support, Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Today Synology Inc. announced yet another 6-bay DiskStation NAS with the DS1621+. This particular NAS leverages a quad-core, AMD Ryzen processor to deliver twice the processing power. This DiskStation is designed for high-performance data storage and management for SMB that need a bit more on the performance side of things.

Today, Zerto launched what the company is calling Zerto Data Protection (ZDP). The company is saying that they hope their ZDP feature will allow them to compete with other backup solutions on cost. Roy Golding and Ziv Kedem founded Zerto in 2009. Zerto, the company, released their first product in 2011 and is best known

Today GIGABYTE Technology announced new rackmount and high-density severs that leverage the AMD EPYC processors. The benefits of the new CPUs are leveraged through the support for PCIe Gen 4 for all front drive bays and onboard M.2 slots. On top of that, several of the server support Broadcom Tri-mode storage adapters. The new servers

Today Canonical, the Ubuntu company, announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. MicroK8s was introduced in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine for IoT devices and workstations. HA MicroK8s come with the needed resiliency for production workload in the cloud and/or server deployments.

Today, Oracle announced Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle describes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as an IaaS that delivers on-premises high-performance computing power to run Cloud-native and enterprise company’s IT workloads. Oracle was founded in 1977. Anyone with a technical background will likely remember their purchase of Sun and Java. The company

Recently VMware Inc. announced the release of an ESXi-Arm Fling. As the name suggests ESXi-Arm is a specific version of ESXi built to run on 64-bit Arm processors. While this has been a few years in the making, Project Monterey has helped speed up this process with the support of SmartNICs.