Intel has agreed to sell its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix, the South Korean chipmaker. Earlier Sources are suggested that the sale will go for roughly $10 billion; however, the deal was closed for $9 billion in an all-cash transaction that would see Intel’s SSD business in the United States go to SK
Two years ago, DataDirect Networks (DDN) decided to buy Tintri. So far, DDN has continued releasing products under the Tintri brand name while slowly incorporating Tintri’s technology. Today, DDN has taken another step along their surprisingly long road to fully absorbing the company they bought. Tintri just released a new hybrid NVMe/HDD series of systems
Today NetApp made several announcements ranging from hardware and software to cloud services/subscriptions. On the software side, the company announced the latest version of its data management software, NetApp ONTAP 9.8. The latest version makes several enhancements including building on those made in ONTAP 9.7.
Today NetApp made several announcements including the release of a new entry-level system in their AFF series, the NetApp AFF A250. The A250 is set to replace the A220 but sit under the A300. The A250 is said to deliver best-in-class performance and efficiency at an entry price point to mid-size business customers allowing for
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
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
Over the years, NetApp has transformed SolidFire into the all-flash storage system that acts as a foundation for their cloud infrastructure. Today, the company is announcing NetApp SolidFire Enterprise SDS as a foundation for the private cloud.
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.
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
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
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