This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest

It its apparent quest to buy all the storage companies, StorCentric announced that it has acquired Violin Systems. With this acquisition, StorCentric adds software-defined NVMe, high-performance storage to its portfolio. This rounds out the enterprise workload demands, making StorCentric more of a one-stop-shop.

This week, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves. AWS Nitro Enclaves makes it easy for customers to create isolated compute environments within Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to protect their highly sensitive workloads. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory

Today Lexar announced its new Lexar Professional 1066x microSDHC/microSDXC SILVER Series Cards. The card hits lots of buttons to make it really attractive: use in several popular devices, capacity up to 512GB, and fast quoted speeds, up to 160MB/s read. This seems to be a continuation of Lexar’s quality microSD cards.

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