Back in January, iXsystems had a major release in the form of FreeNAS 11.3. This is not to be confused with last month’s major announcement of FreeNAS and TrueNas gaining name parity along with other shared features.This week saw the release of iXsystems FreeNAS 11.3-U2 that mainly focuses on bug fixes and other housekeeping issues.

If you find yourself here reading this article, it probably means something has gone terribly wrong. Take a deep breath, we’re going to get through this. Buried in the depths of the Google search results for “deleted file recovery,” past the very aggressive SEO results of various companies trying to get you to buy their

Today, HiveIO announced that they were now offering a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution. A Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution provides virtual desktops through the cloud in much the same way a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or thin-client does using on-premise servers. HiveIO was founded in 2015, and prior to this has focused

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Samsung announces EUV DRAM. AWS makes several announcements. Backblaze hits an Exabyte. Quantum expands video surveillance portfolio. Kasten introduces K10 2.5. Synology VPN Plus licenses free until 09/20/2020. Aerospike announces Aerospike Cloud. FalconStor and

FTS International (FTSI), one of the largest well completion companies in North America, recently migrated its Active Directory infrastructure in the data center from a Dell on-premises setup to a two cluster DataON solution for Azure Stack HCI. We have been working with DataON for the last couple of months to get a better understanding

Earlier this month the Kubeflow community introduced Kubeflow 1.0 up from its stable and beta release of 0.7. Being one of the top contributors to Kubeflow, Cisco announced the release of Cisco Kubeflow Starter Pack. The company claims this pack will make operationalizing machine learning for large scale deployments easier.

Today IGEL announced the release of the latest version of its operating system, IGEL OS 11.03.5000. This new version is aimed at home workers that leverage IGEL OS as a secure workspace, providing access to Office 365, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Another big part of

Sliding out today, VMware Inc. announced that VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3 (SRM) and vSphere Replication 8.3 are hitting generally availability. SRM and vSphere Replication 8.3 were announced earlier in the month along with announcements around vSphere, vSAN, and Tanzu. The company states that the above automation software integrates with an underlying replication technology to

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced several initiatives around helping those that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. These initiatives cover stronger VDI, financial service tweaks, and preconfigured VDI solutions for SMB and enterprise. The company states it is devoting time and resources to help combat the challenges of Covid-19.