Veeam announced that it has acquired the data backup, disaster recovery and mobility platform for Kubernetes, Kasten. Kasten has been in the container/Kubernetes space for almost three years. Kasten was acquired through cash and stock and the deal is said to be roughly $150 million dollars in value.

Today, Dell Technologies announced their largest PowerEdge XE to date. More than twice the size of the existing PowerEdges, the PowerEdge XE7100 is a massive 5U and, at 911mm long, uses the full depth of standard server rack cabinets. Dell Technologies has been Dell and Dell EMC’s parent company ever since Dell acquired EMC in

Today Rancher Labs released the latest version of its eponymous software with the release of Rancher 2.5. Being a Kubernetes management platform, the latest upgrades and capabilities are going to surround Kubernetes including an enhanced single cluster management experience, application deployment at scale expanded, expanded cloud distribution support, and a new security hardened, certified Kubernetes

Today, Commvault announced the availability of Metallic Cloud Storage Service. The new storage service will act as a fully integrated cloud storage target for Commvault Backup and Recovery software and HyperScale X appliance. According to Commvault, using the cloud as a backup target can help increase protection against ransomware and provide additional airgapping and security

Today after NVIDIA made several GPU-related announcements at its annual GTC event, Supermicro did what it does bests, announcing hardware support for the latest innovation to hit the market. In this case, Supermicro announced that it has expanded its new 4U server to support up to eight NVIDIA HGX A100 GPUs. The company also has

Today at their GTC 2020 Event, NVIDIA announced a new real-time collaborative platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse. The platform hit open beta today with a download expected to be available later in the fall. The new platform will allow several creative fields to collaborate including those that work in photorealism and 3D simulation.

Today, NVIDIA announced two new Workstation GPUs as part of the new Ampere architecture, the same architecture as the highly revered RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The new NVIDIA RTX A6000 and A40 feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores that accelerate graphics, rendering, compute, and AI significantly faster than previous generations. Despite

Today at the GTC 2020 show, NVIDIA announced a new platform to be available on Amazon EC2 P3 and G4 instances (that which support NVIDIA V100 and T4 GPUs), the NVIDIA CloudXR. This platform will enable users to stream high-quality immersive experiences to remote VR and AR devices. NVIDIA goes so far as to state

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Datadobi launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service. Veritas acquires Globanet. Cohesity announces Automated Disaster Recovery. NETGEAR releases cable modem with WiFi 6 technology. Hammerspace is free up to 10TB. Synology adds new SSD and updates