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

Today, Spin Memory announced a new RAM (Random-Access Memory) production technology that improves memory density (and thus capacity) by at least 20%. The company claims that some chips designs can embed up to five times more memory in the same area footprint with minimal additional wafer processing costs by adopting their new technology. Spin Memory

Today, SonicWall announced a massive slate of hardware and software updates. SonicWall announced plans to release several new firewall appliances. The software updates are even more extensive and include several new software-defined firewall products. SonicWall was founded in 1991. The current CEO, Bill Conner, has been in that position since November 2016. SonicWall was a

Today WekaIO and Destiny Corporation announced that they have published a reference design that is capable of delivering 5X runtime and wall clock time improvements for SAS analytics long running jobs. Not only is the new solution aimed at performance but it is said to provide good storage economics as well. This solution is available

Today Dell Technologies and Google announced the latest Chromebook, with the Dell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise. This marks an expansion of Chrome OS into businesses and enterprises where devices for remote work are looking more attractive by the day. The Dell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise features is a 14-inch, 2-in-1 that comes with lots of

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Ivanti integrates Ivanti Neurons Platform with Splunk Security Operations Suite. Unisys enhances CloudForte. Microchip introduces new 8-Channel SSD controller. Quantum ActiveScale software verified as Veeam Ready. Actifio Supports New Oracle VMware Solution.

StorageReview did a live stream this week with Scale Computing, taking a deep dive into the UI for their HC3 hyperconverged system. Founded in 2008, Scale Computing revolves around letting companies enjoy the benefits of HCI without the costs normally associated with it. Their HC3 products and software takes all the normal needs of HCI