This week, VMware went into more detail describing the new Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) algorithm, improved in the latest VMware vSphere, version 7. VMware now uses an advanced DRS logic and a new DRS UI in the vSphere Client. With these enhancements, VMware DRS focuses on a better solution to support modern workloads.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE partners with SQream. Samsung mass produces eUFS 3.1. FalconStor launches StorSafe. Quantum completes acquisition of ActiveScale. Microsoft Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines hit general availability. AWS adds PyTorch support. Dynatrace offers extended free trials.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new solutions that are SAP HANA-certified for VMware hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Being certified for SAP HANA and VMware are one big benefit, the Supermicro servers are powered by second generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUS and support Intel Optane persistent memory. This added performance is ideal for those that wish to

Through a customer communiqué last week, NetApp announced it would be ending its NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS). On top of that, the company is ending its NKS on HCI & Cloud Volumes on HCI. The services will be discontinued on April 30, 2020.

At the end of the last year, Cisco announced its intention to acquire Exablaze. Now that the acquisition has gone through, the two companies are beginning to integrate. The bulk of this integration is centered around the Exablaze engineering team that will be integrated into the Cisco data center organization.

Today at GTC, BOXX Technologies announced its new BOXX FLEXX data center platform. Billed as NVIDIA-powered, the new platform houses several NVIDIA RTX GPUs. On top of that, the platform houses several CPUs and supports NVIDIA GPU virtualization software for remote workstations.  BOXX is making a few other product announcements at GTC as well.

Although StorONE is a relative newcomer to the storage market, since 2012, the company has developed The Enterprise Storage Platform, the technology behind their software-defined storage (SDS) product “S1.” An Enterprise Storage platform is evolving Software Defined Storage so that it provides maximum performance, supports all use cases (Block, File, Object )and all protocols (Fibre,

Today, Dell announced several Dell Technologies AI solutions. The solutions include Dell EMC HPC Ready Architecture for AI and Data Analytics, as well as two new validated architectures specifically for data analytics. Dell Technologies has been the parent company of Dell and Dell EMC ever since Dell acquired EMC in 2015. Dell was founded in

With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging, many tech companies are finding ways to aid the shift to remote workers. NVIDIA announced that it is doing its part by expanding free access to its GPU virtualization software. NVIDIA’s free 90-day virtual GPU software went from 128 to 500 licenses.