Today, Pivot3 announced a new video surveillance server that will use Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SR655 server. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI products, including both datacenter and edge platforms running custom software.

This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire the cloud-native security company, Octarine. This move gives VMware yet another notch in its Kubernetes belt. Octarine offers an innovative security platform for Kubernetes applications that helps simplify DevSecOps and enables cloud native environments to be more secure, from development through runtime.

NVIDIA had its annual GTC summit, NVIDIA GTC 2020, 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. NVIDIA and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include Iguazio partnering with NVIDIA, Lenovo DCG

Today, Lenovo announced the latest ThinkCentre desktops featuring new 10th Gen Intel processors and 10th Gen Intel Core vPro processors. These devices come in a variety of sizes, from all-in-ones, small form-factor, and traditional towers. Lenovo is also updating the Tiny-in-One solution (TiO) with the 4th generation TIO22 and TIO24. These solutions are essentially modular

Today, at the rescheduled GTC (GPU Technology Conference organized by NVIDIA), NVIDIA revealed that they have begun shipping their first 7nm GPU to appliance manufacturers. Much like AMD, who released a 7nm GPU two years ago in 2018, NVIDIA is choosing to focus on the data center use cases for their first 7nm GPU. NVIDIA

Today at GTC in Santa Clara, NVIDIA announced the first secure SmartNIC that is optimized for 25G, the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC. Designed to provide advanced network offloads to accelerate cloud and enterprise workloads, the new SmartNIC is highly secure and able to hit 25/50Gb/s speeds.

Today, Supermicro announced two new servers that will use NVIDIA’s recently teased third generation of HGX GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), NVIDIA A100 GPUs. SMCI, Super Micro Computer Incorporated, commonly referred to as just Supermicro, was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world.

Back in February, a series of Thunderbolt securities flaws were discovered and reported by Björn Ruytenberg, an MSc student in Computer Science and Engineering who specializes in Information Security. Ruytenberg, published a Thunderbolt vulnerability report and has named this hacking technique as Thunderspy. Thunderspy is a collection of vulnerabilities that breaks all primary Thunderbolt security

This week, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has announced the general availability of Proxmox VE 6.2, the latest version of Proxmox’s open-source virtualization management platform. This new version includes features aimed at addressing issues facing modern datacenter administrators and IT teams, said the company. Moreover, notable improvements and many advanced options for the web-based user interface.