This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cisco reports fourth quarter and full year 2019 earnings. Virtual Instruments acquires Metricly. NexentaStor VSA for Tintri announced. GIGABYTE takes eleven world records with AMD EPYC 7002 processors. Dell releases OptiPlex 7070 Ultra. Panzura

Cloudian announced the general availability for its object storage solution for VMware Cloud Providers. The new solution is managed through VMware vCloud Director and is said to give VMware Cloud Providers new storage services that seamlessly integrate with S3-compatible applications. Cloudian will be showcasing the joint offering in the Veeam booth (#627) at VMworld 2019

SK hynix is the 2nd largest memory chip producer and 3rd largest global semiconductor manufacturer with various other offerings including SATA and NVMe flash storage devices. Originally founded in 1983 as Hyundai Electronics Industries, SK hynix jumped into the DRAM and NAND market as a manufacturer. In this article we take a look at the history of SK hynix, what makes their

Ahead of VMworld 2019 next week, HP announced today what it is referring to as the world’s most powerful thin client, the HP t740. The company is also announcing a self-defending thin client in the HP t640. For other VDI solutions the company is announcing HP ThinPro PC Converter and HP Device Manager 5.0. 

Today Datrium introduced Datrium its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS. The company states that its new DRaaS is the first to offer enterprise-class on-demand disaster recovery from S3 backups. The new DRaaS is built on the company’s workload orchestrator, ControlShift. Datrium claims its new DRaaS can provide fast

At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced a new portfolio of external storage solutions for PC and console gamers, its new WD_Black products. The new portfolio includes five new HDDs and SSDs purpose-built for expanding PC and console game capacity. Among the portfolio of new drives is the first-to-industry SuperSpeed USB (20Gb/s),

Today NetApp announced a new EF-Series, the EF600 series. This end-to-end NVMe series is aimed at the midrange. The company goes on to state that the EF600 series helps midrange IT improve flexibility and business agility while helping them develop new insights for performance sensitive workloads. 

Today Druva announced what it calls the industry’s first multi-tier intelligent data storage in the cloud. This storage tiering supports all layers of AWS storage, including S3, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive. The company also announced built-in disaster recovery (DR) on AWS.

Today SolarWinds announced the latest enhancements to its web performance monitoring products including SolarWinds Orion Platform-based Web Performance Monitor (WPM), now WPM 3.0, and its SaaS-based SolarWinds Pingdom solution. The new web performance monitoring products are all about provide better monitoring capabilities while at the same time simplifying troubleshoot, that in turn makes the end