Today at the intel Industrial Summit 2020, the company wanted to highlight some of its products and how it would tackle the rapidly evolving world of internet of things (IoT). This was a bit of a mixture of new and older products that can now be leveraged for AI, security, functional safety, and real-time capabilities,

Today, Lenovo announced an expansion of its Linux portfolio, extending its certification program that was announced in June to include ThinkPad and ThinkStations preinstalled with Canonical’s Ubuntu LTS. Previously only accessible to enterprise customers through custom orders, a full range of PCs will now be available with Ubuntu pre-installed right from Lenovo’s website. These include

Today, Western Digital (WD) announced additions to its family of WD Purple storage solutions. The new additions consist of an 18TB HDD and a 1TB microSD, both due out later this year. The gold line got 18TB HDDs a few months ago as well. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since

Today, MemVerge announced the general availability of their “Memory Machine” software. Like most MemVerge software, their “Memory Machine” software is intended to work with Intel Optane persistent memory to provide a software-defined memory pool. MemVerge was founded in August 2017, shortly after Intel released its Optane SSDs. MemVerge’s primary product used to be Memory-Converged Infrastructure

Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to

Today NETGEAR, Inc. announced its new Managed Business Router BR200. The BR200 is designed with small to medium and remote offices in mind. The smaller to medium guys can offer their employees and customers secure access to an office intranet through a secure site-2-site Virtual Private Network (IPSec VPN).

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TrilioVault for Kubernetes now available with IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat Marketplace. SIOS AppKeeper now available in AWS Marketplace. XPG launches GAMMIX S50 Lite SSD. AWS launches T4g instance. Aerospike announces upgrades

Today, Seagate released the Exos X18 enterprise drive. The Exos X18 is the largest Seagate Exos X HDD drive to date with a listed capacity of 18TB. Seagate has been operating since 1979. The company is one of the most widely known manufacturers of HDDs and SSDs.

Today Pure Storage announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ​Portworx​. Portworx is known for being a Kubernetes data services platform enterprises trust to run mission-critical applications in containers in production. This is Pure’s largest acquisition with a number of roughly $370 million. Pure Storage is stating that the deal will