Today, Portworx announced that the first major update of their backup product, PX-Backup, will be available in Tech Preview later this week. The last half of the month will also see updates for Portworx Enterprise and PX-Autopilot for Capacity Management. Goutham Rao, Murli Thirumale, and Vinod Jayaraman cofounded Portworx in 2014. Portworx’s software all starts

Today SK hynix announced the release of the first 128-layer NAND consumer SSD in the SK hynix Gold P31. This marks an expansion of the company’s consumer SSD presence in the United States, this is the first consumer-facing PCIe SSD launched in the U.S. under the SK hynix brand. The drive will leverage the NVMe

Today iXsystems announced the TrueNAS 12.0 operating system that finally merges the FreeNAS and TrueNAS brands unifying the software and documentation. As we’ve said several times before, there will still be a free version for those that are worried. The companied also announced TrueNAS M60 Unified Storage System that they are calling the industry’s fastest

Earlier today, IBM reveled a new next generation CPU family, the IBM POWER10. This is a 7nm CPU that is designed to meet the needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing. The new CPU family is specifically co-optimized for Red Hat OpenShift, no surprise there.

Today, Apstra launched the latest update to their data center network management software, Apstra AOS. This update brings Apstra AOS to version 3.3. David Cheriton, Mansour Karam, and Sasha Ratkovic founded Apstra in 2014. The company’s main product is Apstra AOS.

Today AppDynamics SAP Peak was announced. This new solution is said to provide technologists with a new and comprehensive set of monitoring tools that connect the most critical components of SAP landscapes with real- time business context. This new tool is great at giving businesses deep visibility into their SAP environments, while providing real-time business

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Mirantis acquires Lens. Quantum DXi 4.1 software released. Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure available on AWS. Dell Financial Services extends Payment Flexibility Program. Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac released. Hammerspace extends its channel program. Alluxio

iXsystems has announced the general availability of TrueNAS 12.0-BETA2. The company has reported over 175 bugs fixes for the newest version, which means we are a lot closer to seeing the full TrueNAS 12.0-Release version. TrueNAS CORE is the successor to FreeNAS, and is one of the three versions of TrueNAS Open Storage software comprised

Pure Storage has announced a strategic partnership with Cohesity that will bring Pure FlashRecover to market. This jointly-engineered solution is specifically designed to meet the most demanding business continuity requirements while enabling new opportunities for data-driven organizations. The new partnership between Pure Storage and Cohesity was mainly due to their customer’s need for an integrated