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

IT departments are challenged with having to choose and configure data storage to meet present-day and future data center, system and end-user requirements for their organizations. They have to predict application use, workload sizes, performance needs and capacity expectations for years to come. Determining these requirements, and then implementing a storage strategy that meets these

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Nexsan releases new BEAST Elite models. KIOXIA adds provisioner service to KumoScale. Insight Partners completes acquisition of Veeam. Datrium adds five new patents. StorONE buys Storage Switzerland. NVIDIA acquires SwiftStack.

iXsystems announced today that it was making some changes around its popular open source storage software. iXsystems has two major products, the ever popular FreeNAS and the enterprise TrueNAS. With the next update the two will become one, with a few caveats.