Today at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc. celebrated the 1-year birthday of VMware Tanzu with the announcement of expanding the portfolio, new support, and a new partnership. The new support includes VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. The new partnership is with GitLab.

Today at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc. announced its VMware Future-Ready Workforce solutions. These new solutions are designed to provide exceptional workforce experiences, end-to-end Zero Trust security controls, and simplified management. The new solutions include a combination of what VMware is calling the industry-leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Digital Workspace and Endpoint Security capabilities. IT

Today VMware announced a new technology preview focused on evolving its architecture for the data center, cloud, and edge to address the changing requirements of next-generation applications, Project Monterey. This new technology will extend VMware Cloud Foundation to support SmartNIC technology that will see a performance boost, better security, and more consistent operations in applications.

Today, Lenovo announced a new and updated line of ThinkPad and ThinkBooks, as well as their Lenovo Device Intelligence (LDI) Service, which is an AI-based Software as a Service (SaaS) to monitor the health of a company’s fleet of PCs, help to diagnose issues, and assist in predicting and preventing potential hardware and system failures

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NAKIVO releases Backup & Replication v10.1. Retrospect Announces Retrospect Backup 17.5. OWC Introduces Mercury Pro LTO. Cisco Intersight is now integrated with Hitachi Storage

Supermicro is claiming to be the first in the industry to hit the market with a 1U NEBS Level 3 certified server. This server is designed for 5G, edge, AI, VR, and AR use cases. Fully loaded up with four NVIDIA V100 or V100S Tensor Core GPUs lets this diminutive server hit up to 2,560

Back at the beginning of the year, Seagate unveiled its Lyve Drive Mobile system, of modular storage for enterprise, cloud, and edge. Today at their Datasphere Virtual Conference the company announced an open, flexible converged infrastructure, Seagate Lyve Drive Rack. Seagate also announced CORTX, a hardware-agnostic open-source object storage software, as well as a corresponding

KIOXIA America, Inc. announced new direct-attached, network-attached devices with the KIOXIA Ethernet SSD Storage. This didn’t solely come from KIOXIA, they have been working with several players in the industry including Marvell, Foxconn-Ingrasys and Accton. These companies are working together to bring Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) technology solutions to market, this announcement being the

Today at the intel Industrial Summit 2020, the company wanted to highlight some of its products and how it would tackle the rapidly evolving world of internet of things (IoT). This was a bit of a mixture of new and older products that can now be leveraged for AI, security, functional safety, and real-time capabilities,