Today and Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle released a slew of new applications and new suites including new Blockchain Applications Cloud. This suite of SaaS applications is tailored around enhanced traceability and transparency throughout the supply chain. Built using Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, the Oracle Blockchain Applications seamlessly connect with Oracle Supply Chain Management

Samsung announced today at their annual Tech Day event the release of its next generations of NAND SSD and DRAM memory technologies. Additionally, Samsung Foundry announced it has begun production of EUV-based 7nm LLP process, claiming to provide up to a 40% increase in area efficiency with 20% higher performance or 50% lower power consumption,

Cray Inc. recently announced a cooperation with Haas F1 Team in the FIA Formula One World Championship. The third-year American team has stated the will be working with the computational capacity of a Cray CS500 cluster supercomputer, using AMD EPYC 7000 processors to handle the large computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations, starting with the 2019

VMware just released their first update to ESXi 6.7, aptly named ESXi 6.7U1. This latest update brings a number of patches and updates, although as someone sitting in front of a vCenter Client window most of the day, you really only care about that awesome new Dark Theme people have been talking about. In this

ClearCube has just released two new thin clients, the C3Pi and the C3Pi+. These are low-cost, and very small form-factor, VDI clients based on the Raspberry Pi B+ platform. ClearCube is positioning these products for use by state and local governments, hospitals, kiosk applications, and other environments where a low-cost, single monitor VDI client would

In an effort to help tamp down ransomware and other cyber attacks, Dell EMC announced the availability of its new Cyber Recovery software and Dell EMC Cyber Recovery Services. According to Dell EMC, its new software includes innovative automation, workflow and security analytics tools to ensure gold copies of critical data are isolated yet available

Today Violin Systems and X-IO Technologies announced that Violin Systems, strengthening the company’s high performance solutions, would acquire the X-IO Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) business. X-IO will become Axellio, Inc. that will focus on edge computing and HCI business. While financial terms were not disclosed the transaction is expected to be completed within 30 days. 

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Zadara adds All-Flash Arrays. SolarWinds releases Data Performance Analyzer 12.0. Kaminario sets financial record. WD releases 96-Layer UFS 2.1 embedded flash drive. Arcserve launches Business Continuity Cloud. Supermicro announces Open SDN Platform for 5G.

At Adobe Max 2018, running October 15th-17th, HP announced upgrades to its Z Studio product line. Z by HP is targeted at creative professionals; placing it in competition with Apple's MacBooks and other products.The new Z by HP portfolio includes ZBook mobiles, Z desktops like the HP Z2 Mini or the HP Z8, and DreamColor