Our News Bits is a roundup that typically covers news pieces that are just small in content, not in impact. This gives content room to breath even if it comes in less than what we normally cover. At Microsoft Ignite 2018 there were several announcements that either small or would potentially get wiped out by some of the

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) announced a host of updates and enhancements at Next 2018. We covered some of their appliance updates here. This article will cover three of their other major announcements; Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Container Platform enhancements, Smart Data Center updates, and the addition of Lumada Maintenance Insights to

VMware, Inc. announced that it has been positioned as a leader in “The Forrester Wave: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Q3 2018.” The product strategy criterion, compromised of the sub-criteria of value proposition and vision in the strategy category, was mastered by VMware, according to Forrester’s report, where they achieved the highest possible score. Forrester evaluated each vendor’s

Today at NEXT 2018 Hitachi Vantara announced the release of technology enhancements across its IT infrastructure portfolio. Among these enhancements include Hitachi’s first all-NVMe hyperconverged system which provides Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) customers with improved performance and efficiency. Additionally, more converged infrastructure server options, functionality, and applications infrastructure solution updates, aimed to address multi-cloud

At their Ignite event this week Microsoft announced a host of updates to their Azure cloud services; prominent amongst them was Windows Virtual Desktop which will enter public preview later this year. Windows Virtual Desktop delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience allowing customers to deploy and scale Windows and Office on Azure, with built-in security

International Data Corporation (IDC) ran its quarterly Worldwide Server Tracker for the second quarter, this time for worldwide converged systems market, which reported an increase of 9.9% year over year to $3.5 billion during the second quarter of 2018.

Intel has been steadily working to increase the storage capacity of their Optane (3D XPoint) line of SSDs. Like the rest of their Optane line, the new drives are blisteringly fast with read/write latencies under eleven microseconds. Most recently, they released 905p models in both Half Height Half Length (HHHL) Add-in-Card format and 2.5 x 15mm,

Today at its SpringOne Platform Conference in Washington DC, Pivotal Software Inc. announced several updates to its Kubernetes and Hybrid/Multi-Cloud platforms. The company announced updates to its Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platform, Pivotal Container Service (PKS) based on Kubernetes, and its Pivotal Applications Service (PAS). These updates will simplify and expand multi-cloud support to customers.

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Axellio, a division of X-IO Technologies, announced its new FabricXpress Windows Server Software-Defined (FX-WSSD) solutions. The FabricXpress WSSD is an all-flash hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliance based on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019. According to Axellio, the FX-WSSD is designed to “scale in” with NVMe over PCIe that will