VMware has announced the intention to acquire Lastline, a cybersecurity company and breach detection platform provider. VMware is a provider of cloud computing and virtualization software and services. With this addition, VMware is looking to enhance its SDN network virtualization and security platform, NSX. The company affirms that the partnership is a step forward for

Silicon Power has announced the US70 SSD, which is highlighted by its PCIe Gen 4×4 interface (backwards-compatibility with PCIe 3.0), 3D NAND flash memory, and NVMe 1.3 support. Built specifically for gamers, professional designers/editors, and prosumers looking for a new high-speed storage solution, the US70 is quoted with impressive read and write speeds up to

NetApp has begun offering a new, smaller HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) appliance. Previously, the smallest HCI configuration NetApp supported used six total nodes, making both space and cost a concern for many potential customers. By reducing the minimum number of nodes needed to form a cluster, NetApp hopes to reach new markets. Today’s announcement comes hot

In a somewhat unusual move, Synology Inc. launched its own series of SSDs. These new Synology SSD line comes in 2.5” SATA, M.2 2280, and M.2 221100 form factors and are said to provide high performance with low latency. The SSDs are geared toward virtualization workloads, high traffic volume database storage, and AI and HPC

Today, Scality extended their Zenko multi-cloud data controller’s integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Long time readers may remember when we covered the initial release of Scality Zenko two years ago, in 2018.  Scality was founded in 2009. The company has two primary products.  The first is the Zenko multi-cloud controller, which is the focus

At its annual user conference (and first virtual one) ZertoCON 2020, the company unveiled its plan to extend its enterprise-class VM and cloud IT Resilience Platform to support next generation, cloud native applications. As part of this, the company has announced Zerto for Kubernetes, adding to what they can provide in the realm of data

Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced several upgrades to HPE Primera and HPE Nimble. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.

Today, Pure Storage released Purity for FlashArray (Purity//FA) version 6.0. Purity//FA is the company’s eponymous flagship software. John Colgrove and John Hayes founded Pure Storage 11 years ago in 2009. The company sells storage-as-a-service using all-flash servers bundled with their custom software.

Today Data Dynamics made a couple of announcements the main being the introduction of its Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform. The company also announced Data Dynamics StorageX 8.2 as well as the release of Insight AnalytiX 1.1. StorageX 8.2 is said to simplify and accelerate the movement of file data to S3 object storage, for