Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces, the company’s scalable, highly available and fully-managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the open-source Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, which allows customers to migrate workloads via the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools they currently

Today Commvault announced the launch of NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP). The idea behind SDP is to offer expanded rapid recovery support for critical data across NetApp’s hybrid-enabled storage systems. NetApp SDP is powered by Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery software, hence the launching from Commvault. This marks the continuing partnership of NetApp and Commvault

Today, Canonical announced the release of the latest version of their Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa.” Ubuntu is a popular and well-known Linux operating system (OS) originally forked off of Debian. Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical sixteen years ago in 2004. Canonical focuses on developing and providing support services for Ubuntu in addition

As we mention on our last podcast, several users were frustrated to find that WD Red NAS drives they purchased were SMR when they thought they were CMR. SMR is a technology that can introduce more capacity onto a platter, as well as introduces performance differences, particularly in writes. WD has responded through its blog,

QNAP has announced the availability of three new JBOD enclosures, the TL-D400S (4-bay), TL-D800S (8-bay) and TL-D1600S (16-bay), as well as the 4-bay TL-R400S and 12-bay TL-R1200S-RP rackmounts. These storage enclosures can be directly attached to compatible NAS, PCs and servers using SFF-8088 cables and a QXP PCIe card. Moreover, the TL SATA JBOD supports

Today, Amazon Wed Services (AWS) opened a new region, the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. This marks a whopping 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world for AWS. Opening up a new region in South Africa gives developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations the ability to

Cisco and Google made a joint announcement. They are hoping to release a turnkey networking solution that currently has the very long name of: Cisco SD-WAN (Software Defined-Wide Area Network) Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. Google is hopeful they’ll be able to release it sometime in the first half of 2021. With a target date

Today BOXX Technologies announced the launch of its BOXX Cloud Services (BCS). The company states that BCS is a secure, high-performance, virtual private cloud workstation service powered by professionally overclocked BOXX workstations purpose-built for enterprise organizations’ CAD applications and workflows. This gives those that work in architecture, engineering, and design the power of a BOXX

Today NetApp introduced its vision for a for a software-defined platform, Project Astra. Developed with the Kubernetes community, Astra is said to deliver enterprise class easy-to-consume data services, storage, and application and data portability for stateful applications. NetApp sees this platform working with any Kubernetes distribution on any cloud.