Today, Lenovo unveiled the Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 and the ThinkSystem DM7100 (pictured below). The ThinkAgile MX1021 is a Microsoft-based edge appliance. ThinkSystem DM710 appliances are storage solutions. Lenovo was founded in 1984 is well known for its endpoint solutions as well as their infrastructure solutions like ThinkSystem servers and the ThinkAgile software-defined portfolio.
Today, Scale Computing extended their partnership with Acronis to offer Acronis Cloud Storage. We last covered Scale Computing’s partnership with Acronis in September 2019 when Scale Computing’s add Acronis Backup to their HC3 platform. According to Scale Computing’s website, they were Incorporated in 2008 and primarily provides edge-focused solutions. Their flagship product is HC3, an
Today, DataStax released the code for an Apache Cassandra Kubernetes operator. DataStax was founded in March 2010. Their eponymous flagship product is DataStax is built on the open-source Apache Cassandra database.
Today, StorOne announced that the third major version of its Enterprise Storage Platform has entered general availability, StorONE S1 Storage Platform V3. StorONE was founded in 2012, and their focus is on providing low-cost storage through their S1 storage platform, which is the focus of this article. In an amazingly generous and humanitarian gesture, StorOne
This week, VMware went into more detail describing the new Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) algorithm, improved in the latest VMware vSphere, version 7. VMware now uses an advanced DRS logic and a new DRS UI in the vSphere Client. With these enhancements, VMware DRS focuses on a better solution to support modern workloads.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE partners with SQream. Samsung mass produces eUFS 3.1. FalconStor launches StorSafe. Quantum completes acquisition of ActiveScale. Microsoft Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines hit general availability. AWS adds PyTorch support. Dynatrace offers extended free trials.
Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new solutions that are SAP HANA-certified for VMware hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Being certified for SAP HANA and VMware are one big benefit, the Supermicro servers are powered by second generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUS and support Intel Optane persistent memory. This added performance is ideal for those that wish to
Through a customer communiqué last week, NetApp announced it would be ending its NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS). On top of that, the company is ending its NKS on HCI & Cloud Volumes on HCI. The services will be discontinued on April 30, 2020.
At the end of the last year, Cisco announced its intention to acquire Exablaze. Now that the acquisition has gone through, the two companies are beginning to integrate. The bulk of this integration is centered around the Exablaze engineering team that will be integrated into the Cisco data center organization.
Today at GTC, BOXX Technologies announced its new BOXX FLEXX data center platform. Billed as NVIDIA-powered, the new platform houses several NVIDIA RTX GPUs. On top of that, the platform houses several CPUs and supports NVIDIA GPU virtualization software for remote workstations. BOXX is making a few other product announcements at GTC as well.
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