Cisco has announced its intention to aquire Exablaze, a privately held, Australia-based vendor of low-latency networking equipment. Cisco indicates that, by integrating Exablaze’s products and technology into the their own portfolio, they will gain the latest Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology with the necessary flexibility and programmability their customers need. Among these Exablaze products are
Dell Technologies released two plugins for Dell EMC Unity XT. Unity, in this case, does not refer to the popular video game software development environment, but to Dell's line of all-flash unified storage servers. The first plugin is for Kubernetes and is called the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin. The second plugin is a VMware vRealize
International Data Corporation (IDC) ran its quarterly Worldwide Server Tracker for the third quarter of the worldwide converged systems market, reporting an increase of 3.5% year over year to $3.75 billion, which was much lower than last quarter. Nonetheless, Dell has again posted top revenue and market share as the number one global provider of hyper-converged
HYCU released HYCU Protégé to general availability. HYCU Protégé is currently available on an as-a-service model and provides multi-cloud migration, data management, and disaster recovery services. Previously known as Comtrade Software of Comtrade Group, HYCU renamed itself after its most successful product HYCU just last year, around March 2018. HYCU currently provides application-focused data protection
Dynatrace has announced the Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) Practice to help speed up DevOps’ move to autonomous cloud operations. ACE is designed to give organizations everything they need (such as best practices, hands-on expertise, and automation services) to successfully migrate to autonomous, NoOps cloud operations. Dynatrace indicates that practice will initially focus on both unbreakable CI/CD
Aerospike released version 4.8 of their NoSQL database to general availability. Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.8 adds support for storing record data in Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (PMEM). Aerospike was founded in 2009 under the name Citrusleaf but in 2012 changed the company name to match the name of their NoSQL database.
Lightbits Labs has announced advancements to LightOS with the first NVMe/TCP clustered storage solution. Lightbits LightOS is the company’s software solution designed to give organizations availability, flexibility and efficiency of hyperscale cloud infrastructure to on-premise data centers, which allows application teams to focus their efforts on developing new services aligned with their organizational goals.
Scale Computing, released the HE150 at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. The new HE150 is the latest addition to Scale Computing’s HC3 Edge product line and is intended to allow them to serve customers and companies without the space or other resources for a server room. Scale Computing was founded in the
Pivot3 released an update for their Acuity software. The update is aimed at improving their networks' resilience and improving customer's abilities to recover from the loss of a cluster node or other partial outage. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI
Supermicro has released its second annual Data Centers and the Environment report, which is based on an industry survey of over 5,000 IT professionals. After analyzing the results, the company has determined that the majority of data center leaders do not “fully consider” green initiatives when building-out data center infrastructures. Supermicro believes that organizations will see
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