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Enterprise File Services Platform 7.0
Enterprise  ◇  Storage Adapters

CTERA Releases Enterprise File Services Platform 7.0

Today, CTERA released a new version of their Enterprise File Services Platform, 7.0. Liran Eshel and Zohar Kaufman founded CTERA Networks (commonly referred to as just CTERA) in May of 2008. Liran is currently serving as the company’s CEO. Zohar Kaufman left CTERA two years ago in 2018 to found Portshift. CTERA’s first product was

Enterprise  ◇  Hyperconverged

iXsystems Expands TrueNAS Product Line

iXsystems – makers of TrueNAS (Formerly FreeNAS) – has been at it again. This time Scaling out and expanding both hardware and software. One thing the company has talked about previously but is out today with the TrueNAS SCALE Open Source HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) Platform. The company is also releasing its R-Series of storage systems

NetApp FAS500f
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

NetApp FAS500f Announced

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.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Cohesity, Lenovo, Privacera, AMD, Login VSI, and TEAMGROUP

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

Enterprise  ◇  Software

QNAP QTS 4.5.1 Released

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

Synology DS1621+
Enterprise  ◇  Small NAS

Synology DS1621+ With AMD Processor Announced

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.

Zerto Data Protection
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Zerto Data Protection Launched

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

Enterprise  ◇  Server

GIGABYTE Rolls Out PCIe 4.0 Servers

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

HA MicroK8s
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Canonical Introduces HA MicroK8s

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.