This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. OWC releases SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT for Windows. GIGABYTE announced its support for the new NVIDIA innovations. Diamanti announces support for Red Hat OpenShift. Komprise adds new capabilities for Azure.

Today, Backblaze announced a new Object Lock feature for their B2 Cloud Storage service. The Object Lock feature does exactly what it says it does; it locks stored data to prevent erasure or alteration. Backblaze was founded in 2007. The company offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup to

Today, Dell Technologies is announcing Dell EMC Disk Library for mainframe (DLm) virtual tape release 5.3. New DLm enhancements deliver cloud connectivity and simplify operations, including Amazon S3 cloud support, supporting IBM-compatible Transparent Cloud Tiering, 3-site automated tape failover, and a new graphical user interface for the DLm8500. These features are coming out together with

Today, Dell Technologies released PowerScale OneFS 9.1, offering several new features, including simplified management, faster performance, and increased flexibility. PowerScale OneFS is the power behind the Dell EMC PowerScale storage systems, Dell Technologies’ industry-leading scale-out NAS platform, which thousands of organizations rely on to address their unstructured data needs. This complete storage strategy aims for

Today Western Digital expanded its gaming portfolio, WD_BLACK, with even more drives and a gaming dock. These new products include a PCIe Gen4 SSD, the WD_BLACK SN850, an AIC NVMe SSD, the WD_BLACK AN1500, and the aforementioned dock, the WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock. All the new devices leverage the NVMe interface and bring new speeds

Today OpenDrives launched the latest version of their software platform and file system that powers all OpenDrives storage solutions, OpenDrives Atlas 2.1. The company claims the new version will enable a scale-out storage architecture to accelerate performance, power, and flexibility of OpenDrives’ storage lineup. This lineup would include the recently announced OpenDrives Ultra Hardware platform.

This week, Marvell introduced the industry’s first native NVMe RAID 1 accelerator targeting virtualized, multi-tenant cloud, and enterprise data center environments. The first of Marvell’s partners to support this new accelerator is Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), in the HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device. It is offered on select HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo

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