Today, Alluxio announced the addition of Alluxio Structured Data Service (SDS) to Alluxio 2.2. SDS features data catalog and transformation services. The company develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Today VMware has made some major announcements from expanding Tanzu to releasing vSAN 7. In another major announcement the company is releasing the latest version of vSphere with VMware vSphere 7. While there are several new features and capabilities announced, the key feature is native support for Kubernetes, allowing the ability to run containers and

Today VMware Inc. released the latest version of their very popular hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, VMware vSAN 7. The latest version comes with several enhancements, with one of the major focuses being on simplifying infrastructure management through the reduction of tools required. vSAN 7 unifies block and file storage, reducing the need for third party

Today VMware hit us with a deluge of announcements about their Kubernetes platform, VMware Tanzu. There have been a lot of name changes and even a few new features since we covered their announcement of Tanzu and the incorporation of NSX Service Mesh last year. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and cloud computing,

Today, Red Hat released Ceph Storage 4. Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable storage solution. Red Hat was founded in 1993 as an open-source software provider and advocate. Today it is still one of the most well-known open-source developers, providing a wide range of home and enterprise software products and services, including a Linux

Today, Supermicro launched five new X11 appliances that it says were designed exclusively for Hyperscale Datacenters. This launch comes hot on the heels of their announcement of a pole-mounted server earlier this month. The company (Super Micro Computer Incorporated, SMCI) was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world.

Kingston Digital has announced Canvas Plus, a refresh of its Canvas series of SD and microSD cards. The new lineup is highlighted by its UHS-II class designation (a Kingston first) and is designed for their new MobileLite Plus UHS-II readers for high-end performance in DSLRs, 4K/8K video production, Android devices, action cams and drones.

Today, Mellanox began shipping their newest ethernet switches to customers.  The new switches belong to the SN4000 family and are powered by the company’s own scalable 12.8 Tbps Ethernet switch ASIC, Spectrum 3. Mellanox was founded in 1999 and provides data center network solutions. NVIDIA is in the process of buying Mellanox for $6.9 billion.

NetApp has announced the acquisition of Talon Storage in an effort to enhance their cloud data services portfolio. Talon Storage is a software-defined storage solutions company that focuses on helping enterprises centralize and consolidate their IT storage infrastructure to the public clouds. NetApp indicates that the addition of Talon’s FAST software, combined with their own