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.

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

Today, IBM announced how they intend to improve their support for Kubernetes in the near future. IBM introduced their first storage for containers in 2017 and has been slowly improving their support since then. In 2018 the computing giant announced plans to acquire Red Hat. IBM was founded in 1911. Over a hundred years old,

QNAP Systems has announced its new all-flash TS-h2490FU, a performance-driven NAS equipped with 24 drive bays for U.2 NVMe Gen 3 x4 SSDs. The TS-h2490FU provides up to 472K/205K IOPS in iSCSI 4K random performance coupled with low latency. It features four 25GbE SFP28 and two 2.5GbE RJ45 LAN ports, five PCIe Gen 4 slots,

Today at NetApp Insight, the company announced that it was bringing better optimization and enterprise data servers to the Cloud. These include a new serverless and storageless solution for containers from Spot by NetApp, new autonomous hybrid cloud volume platform, and cloud-based virtual desktop solutions. The new announcements center on simplifying and optimizing the cloud

Today at NetApp Insight, the company announced that it was partnering with the virtualizing AI infrastructure company, Run:AI, to enable faster AI experimentation with full GPU utilization. The two companies will speed AI by running many experiments in parallel, with fast access to data, utilizing limitless compute resources. The goal is the best of all

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Backblaze hard drive stats For Q3 2020 are out. Commvault HyperScale X Reference Architectures and Remote Office Appliance launched. Robin.io Express Edition launched. Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise announced. Ivanti adds innovations

This week, GIGABYTE Technology announced two new rack servers that come with expanded DIMM slots as well as a new internal storage/expansion slot. The two new servers are the R162-ZA0 and R262-ZA0, designed for data centers and virtualization, and do so with cost savings, generational improvements, and server space maximization. The servers will feature 2nd

VMware has announced the availability of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, based on the recent acquisition of Datrium. This solution is currently VMware’s on-demand disaster recovery (DR) offering, intended to be delivered as a simple and easy-to-use SaaS solution, leveraging cloud economics benefits. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery will enable IT and business continuity teams to easily