This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Datadobi launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service. Veritas acquires Globanet. Cohesity announces Automated Disaster Recovery. NETGEAR releases cable modem with WiFi 6 technology. Hammerspace is free up to 10TB. Synology adds new SSD and updates

Today Seagate Technology plc announced yet another high capacity HDD in the Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB. Like the earlier entries in the line, the latest is also purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance solutions, enabling quicker and smarter decisions. The newer drive is all about the expanded capacity and is shipping today.

This week AWS made yet another announcement surrounding their AWS Outposts, this time granting the ability to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) APIs. Now users of Outposts will be able to store and retrieve their object data the same way they would in a normal AWS Region. All the tools, apps, scripts, or utilities

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a new supply chain security for U.S. federal and public sector customers that prefer U.S. sourced products. This new end-to-end security for the supply chain is done through manufacturing made-in-USA industry-standard servers. This lowers risks of some sort of security compromise along the chain of the server being built.

Today Netlist, Inc. announced that it is shipping its new high performance N1952 NVMe SSD as well as it low power N1552 NVMe SSD line. Both of the two new drive families leverage 96-Layer 3D NAND technology and enhanced firmware. From a security perspective, the drives use standards-based T10 Protection Information (PI) and encryption key

Last week there was a vSphere 7 Update 1 that added support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). With this update, AMD is announcing that it can bring both advanced security features and high-performance capabilities with AMD EPYC processors to VMware environments. AMD is achieving this through an expanded ecosystem with several of the major

Intel Corp. announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Lightbits Labs. This new collaboration is said to propel development of disaggregated storage solutions to solve the challenges of today’s data center operators who are craving improved total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) due to stranded disk capacity and performance. On top of the two companies sharing

At VMworld 2020, VMware announced its intention to acquire SaltStack.  SaltStack is the intelligent, scalable and future-proof automation software that helps organizations control and better secure their IT infrastructure. Once closed, SaltStack will allow VMware to deliver full-stack automation from infrastructure to applications with the ability to do software configuration inside VMs and containers.

Today at VMworld 2020, Dell Technologies announced several innovations of its technology that integrates with VMware environments. The new innovations cover the gamut of providing better protection, management, and better support for both traditional and modern applications regardless if they are at edge locations, core data centers, and/or in hybrid clouds. The updates cover Dell