SUSE announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs. This would make the former a market leader in enterprise Kubernetes management. The deal is expected to close before the end of October 2020, subject to customary closing conditions including receipt of regulatory approvals.
Today Liqid announced that it was working with Broadcom to deliver the first PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen 4.0 Fabric Reference Design Kit (RDK). This RDK should help the adoption of PCIe 4.0 in the data center. The companies have also built managed-fabric solution powered by Liqid Command Center orchestration software and Broadcom PEX88000 PCIe Gen 4.0
Today IBM Storage announced improvements and updates around improving its customers journey into most efficiently leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). These updates include a new IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) 5000 for long-term storage capacity. The IBM COS storage engine has been completely modernized. And IBM Spectrum Discover will be incorporated into Red Hat OpenShift environments.
WD has announced the addition of new Western Digital Capacity-Enterprise storage products data center portfolio, the WD Gold family, which now features new 16TB and 18TB CMR HDD capacities. Also announced is a new refreshed line of Ultrastar JBOD platforms and an Ultrastar hybrid storage server, which feature the Ultrastar 16TB and 18TB CMR HDDs.
Announced at GTC and becoming available as an AIC at ISC, NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now coming to Google Cloud. Considering it has only been roughly a month since the initial announcement, this is a really fast move for a GPU to a major public cloud. Google is the first major public cloud to introduce
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.
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