AWS announced that it has expanded its fairly new AWS Graviton2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type. The original EC2 Graviton2 instances, M6g along with the later added C6g and R6g are all based on the AWS Graviton2 processors. Today they have added the M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instance types that have locally attached

Edge and remote office use cases are all the rage these days, and for good reason. IDC says 50% of new enterprise IT infrastructure will be deployed at the edge by 2023. Beyond the typical use cases that have been around for decades, like small offices and retail, the types of applications being used at

Pivot3 shared with us some of the details of their next planned update to their Acuity Software Platform. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI products, especially for surveillance, including both datacenter and edge platforms running custom software.

Today Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd. announced a new, low-power NVMe SSD series, the Memblaze PBlaze5 520 Series. This new enterprise-class SSD leverages 96-layer 3D eTLC NAND, comes in capacities ranging from 1.6TB to 3.84TB, and comes in both 2.5” U.2 and HHHL form factors. The new series is aimed at “green” data centers and comes

Today Veritas announced new innovations to its Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP), with the launch of Veritas NetBackup 8.3. The new updates are all around reducing risk, optimizing costs, strengthening ransomware resiliency, and managing multi-cloud environments at scale. The core of EDSP is NetBackup, now the company is including Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) and CloudPoint

Today at the first Supermicro Storage Summit, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) unveiled two new top-loading storage systems. The new Supermicro top-loading storage systems have either 60- and/or 90-bays, SSG-6049SP-DE1CR60 and SSG-6049SP-DE1CR90. These new systems will act as expansion for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage applications.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. MinIO earns Veeam Ready qualification. Ivanti Neurons Platform launched. Quantum Introduces Multi-Factor Authentication for tape libraries. Dynatrace expands Azure Monitoring support. IGEL UMS 6.05 released. Masergy expands its SD-WAN portfolio. Bittware launches Xilinx FPGA-based processor.

Robin.io released an upgrade to their eponymous Robin software platform. The upgrade adds support for hosting a single application on one-or-more cloud environments, without needing to any endpoint specific modifications. Robin.io primary product is the Robin software platform for life cycle management and automating scaling and deployment of Kubernetes applications.

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) announced that it has expanded its advanced software development division saying that it will bring to market innovative software tools and applications that automate and simplify business operations, workflows and hybrid cloud data management. The company also announced that its software application for intelligent data transfers to and from public