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News Bits: Micro Focus, Veeam, TYAN, Cohesity, Samsung, Pivot3, Zadara, & More

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Micro Focus completes acquisition of Interset. Veeam achieves backup certification for SAP HANA. TYAN introduces new embedded server motherboards. Cohesity announces new capabilities. Samsung begins mass production on 512GB eUFS 3.0. Pivot3 reports 40%

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dell Technologies Announces 4Q and FY19 Financial Results

Today Dell Technologies Inc. announced its fiscal fourth quarter and full years results for 2019. This is its first earnings report since going public back in December of 2018. Overall the numbers look good as does the company’s stock performance that has steadily climbed since its return to trading.

Enterprise

Before the Home Lab: Selecting the Best Hypervisor

This training series will provide a beginner’s overview on common lab operations and will detail how to get the related operations done. This first series handles hypervisor download, installation and deployment. The expected outcome is to give those in the lab the ability to deploy one, or many, hypervisors for evaluation and long term usage. For the purposes of

Micron 1300 SSD Announced

Today Micron Technology Inc. announced its latest cost-effective SSD for client use, the Micron 1300 SSD. The 1300 is based off of the company’s prior 1100 SSD series and leverages 96-Tier 3D NAND. The drive has a SATA interface and comes in both 2.5” and M.2 form factor in capacities up to 2TB (for the

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Western Digital Releases CL SN720 SSD

Today Western Digital released a new NVMe SSD, the CL SN720. Western Digital also announced a new Ultrastar NVMe SSD, the DC SN630, which they expect to release in April. Both drives use Western Digital's 64-layer 3D NAND technology. 

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

VMware Launches Essential PKS

Today VMware expanded its container service for Kubernetes that they have developed with Pivotal, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). The company has introduced VMware Essential PKS that they call a modular way to consume Kubernetes. VMware states that the new service will include the ability to upstream Kubernetes, reference architectures to inform design decisions, and expert

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

VAST Data Emerges From Stealth With Universal Storage

Today VAST Data came out of stealth with its new storage architecture that they claim will break decades-old storage tradeoffs to bring an end to complex storage tiering and HDD usage in the enterprise. The company calls its new system the VAST’s exabyte-scale Universal Storage system. This system is built entirely of higher performance flash

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Rackspace Collaborates With Pure For Ultra-Fast Block Storage solution

Today Rackspace announced that it is working with Pure Storage to accelerate the value of customers’ hybrid-cloud environments with the launch of the new Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution. This new solution is aimed at mission-critical workloads like eCommerce, databases, disaster recovery, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and machine learning. Today’s collaboration also marks

Supermicro Rolls Out New Intelligent Edge Products

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) announced new edge systems built for artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G workloads. These new solutions are designed to handle all the data volumes demanded by 5G using AI inferencing. Supermicro will be showcasing this technology at booth at Mobile World Congress 2019

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Western Digital Unveils 1TB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXC Card

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced what it is calling the world’s fastest 1TB UHS-I microSD card, the 1TB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXC card. The new microSD card has higher capacity and higher performance for capturing and storing larger files. WD is showcasing the memory card at this