Last week, Gartner released their count of worldwide PC shipment estimates for the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20). According to the company, there were 2.8% more worldwide PC shipments for the past quarter than for the same quarter last year. Gartner was founded in 1979. The USA based company provides research and advice to companies

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AWS Outposts supports Amazon RDS. Dynatrace launches Kubernetes infrastructure support. OwnBackup Secures $50M In Funding. IGEL OS delivers Microsoft Teams Optimization with Citrix. US Signal announces VMware Cloud Verified status. The LTO Program reports record

QNAP Systems, Inc. announced yet another new NAS series with the QNAP TX-x31P3 series. The new series are quad-core 1.7GHz 2.5GbE NAS, that are either 2- or 4-bay. The QNAP TX-x31P3 series is aimed at providing smooth multimedia playback, while also supporting Snapshot backup and HBS (Hybrid Backup Sync) for local, offsite and cloud backup.

DIAWAY has released a 2U hybrid server unit the company has chosen to call DIAWAY EDGEBOX. DIAWAY, or as they list themselves on LinkedIn and Google Maps, DIAWAY OÜ, is a small EU company in with their headquarters in the capital of Estonia. The company was founded in 2017 and offers a variety of AMD-powered

SUSE announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs. This would make the former a market leader in enterprise Kubernetes management. The deal is expected to close before the end of October 2020, subject to customary closing conditions including receipt of regulatory approvals.

Today Liqid announced that it was working with Broadcom to deliver the first PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen 4.0 Fabric Reference Design Kit (RDK). This RDK should help the adoption of PCIe 4.0 in the data center. The companies have also built managed-fabric solution powered by Liqid Command Center orchestration software and Broadcom PEX88000 PCIe Gen 4.0

Today IBM Storage announced improvements and updates around improving its customers journey into most efficiently leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). These updates include a new IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) 5000 for long-term storage capacity. The IBM COS storage engine has been completely modernized. And IBM Spectrum Discover will be incorporated into Red Hat OpenShift environments.

WD has announced the addition of new Western Digital Capacity-Enterprise storage products data center portfolio, the WD Gold family, which now features new 16TB and 18TB CMR HDD capacities. Also announced is a new refreshed line of Ultrastar JBOD platforms and an Ultrastar hybrid storage server, which feature the Ultrastar 16TB and 18TB CMR HDDs.

Announced at GTC and becoming available as an AIC at ISC, NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now coming to Google Cloud. Considering it has only been roughly a month since the initial announcement, this is a really fast move for a GPU to a major public cloud. Google is the first major public cloud to introduce