This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Actifio launched a Data Protection service for GCP Bare Metal. Actifio also announced a lawsuit against Rubrik. TEAMGROUP launches CARDEA Ceramic C440 SSD. Ahana announces Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB availability. Commvault and Microsoft partner to

QNAP has announced the immediate availability of the TS-431X3, their newest NAS featuring quad-core CPU, 10GbE SFP+ and 2.5GbE RJ45 connectivity. The TS-431X3 is designed for businesses with data backup, recovery, and virtualized storage needs by giving them an easy way to deploy a high-speed network environment.

QNAP has announced QuTScloud, the company’s new software-defined cloud NAS solution that allows customers to deploy a QTS NAS operating system to the cloud through a license subscription. QuTScloud supports advanced file management and collaboration that optimizes the usage of data stored on the cloud while giving users the benefits of expected file services and

VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire True Visibility Suite Business Unit of Blue Medora. This addition will provide integration solutions for VMware’s vRealize Operations platform and further VMware’s self-driving operations capabilities.

Today VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire Datrium. This will expand VMware’s Site Recovery disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering with Datrium’s well-known, cost-optimized DRaaS solution. It doesn’t look like the companies are talking money publicly at the moment.

Today Fujitsu announced that it was enhancing its strategic partnership with NetApp for data management. The Companies announced that the four new storage series of Fujitsu ETERNUS leveraging NetApp data management software. The companies state that the deepening or their partnership can help make customers more efficient at management and the rapid us of data,

KIOXIA has successfully demonstrated an E3.S full-function development vehicle in conjunction with a leading server original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF), also known as E3, is designed to maximize system density, efficiency, and simplicity. It is purpose-built for servers and storage.

Today, NVIDIA announced that they would be releasing an update to their GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) virtualization software next month. Nvidia also released some information about their recent collaborations with SUSE Linux. Nvidia was founded in 1993 and is one of only two major GPU manufacturers. Most recent news about the company has been focused

Today, Diamanti released a new major version of its hybrid cloud Kubernetes control plane and operating system, Diamanti Spektra 3.0. This comes as a surprise. The company released Diamanti Spektra 2.4 just two months ago, on April 1st. We did not expect to see a new major release so soon after the last update. Diamanti