Today NVIDA announced its intent to acquire Cumulus Networks. NVIDIA isn’t exactly on an acquisition frenzy, but they did recently acquire Mellanox as well. While the Mellanox deal went for just shy of $7 billion, there doesn’t seem to be a word yet on the price tag of Cumulus.
Today, Backblaze added new APIS to their B2 Cloud Storage. The company describes the APIs as “S3 Compatible,” meaning applications written for S3 should now work on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage without any new code development. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup
Red Hat had its annual summit this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. Red Hat and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include OpenShift 4.4, OpenShift Virtualization, Advanced Cluster Management for
There are a bunch of different cables and connectors that you use daily for connecting, communicating, and powering your electronic devices: HDMI, Display Port, Lightning (Apple), Thunderbolt, and more. All of these technologies pioneered by different manufacturers due to all of them started with different purposes. Nevertheless, when you consider or relate to cables and
Today, VAST Data released Universal Storage 3.0. Universal Storage is VAST’s name for their disaggregated, shared everything, (DASE) all-flash server storage architecture. VAST Data (yes, all the letters in VAST are capitalized) released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding
Today, Clumio announced that it had added Microsoft 365 to its backup as a service strategy. With this joining, the company wants to provide other organizations running Microsoft 365 with a globally consolidated data protection service. Clumio provides backup as a service for enterprise and seeks to eliminate the complexity of infrastructure management.
Today, Cumulus Networks released the latest version of NetQ, 3.0. NetQ is a realtime network monitoring and analytics tool. JR Rivers and Nolan Leake founded Cumulus Networks in 2010. NetQ is one of their two main products. The other is an open-source Linux (Debian based) operating system for network switches.
QNAP has announced the immediate availability of their new quad-core TS-x31K NAS series, which includes 1-bay (TS-131K), 2-bay (TS-231K) and 4-bay (TS-431K) models. These NAS solutions provide centralized data backup and management with file access and sharing, snapshot protection, and a range of multimedia applications. Coupling these features with its compact design makes the TS-x31K
Today Rubrik announced the latest release of its Cloud Data Management solution, Rubrik Andes 5.2. The latest update is said to come with the following benefits: “blazingly” fast VMware performance, improved control for Oracle DBAs, and additional enterprise advancements to address compliance within highly regulated industries. Rubrik goes on to state that Andes 5.2 will
Today, Alluxio announced a plan to collaborate with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.
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