Over the last few weeks, Intel quietly released a new data center (DC) SSD, the P4610. This new drive is also aimed at cloud storage and comes in capacities up to 7.68TB in a U.2 form factor. The SSD leverages the company’s 64-Layer TLC NAND with the promise of performance, QoS, and capacity improvements.

SUSE released version 5.5 of Enterprise Storage, their software-defined storage solution. This latest version is based on the Ceph Luminous release and built on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. It delivers a scalable software-defined storage cluster that provides object, block and file storage. It is designed for bulk storage, compliance, archive, data protection, disaster recovery,

Today Violin Systems announced a new addition to its Extreme Performance Storage Platform family, the Violin XVS 8. The XVS 8 offers to give users what they have come to expect form Violin gear, namely high performance coupled with low latency as well as enterprise-class data services. The XVS8 is aimed at uses cases such

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new hybrid cloud data protection and copy data management solutions for its storage portfolio. These new solutions include the next generation of StoreOnce backup appliances, HPE Recovery Manager Central (RMC) 6.0, HPE StoreOnce with Commvault, and HPE GreenLake Backup enhanced with next-generation HPE StoreOnce and Commvault software integration. The

QNAP Systems, Inc. recently announced the release of QTS 4.3.5, its latest proprietary OS update. QTS 4.3.5 aims to provide better support in demanding, high-speed networks by unleashing the full potential of SSDs through SSD Extra Over-Provisioning and support for Virtual & Network Switch. In addition to the software-defined network architecture and added functionality, QTS

Intel recently extended its field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration platform portfolio with the addition of the new Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA. The Stratix 10 SX is manufactured on Intel's 14nm process and leverages the Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs, providing data center developers a

This week Kubernetes announced its third release of the year, version 1.12. As with all new versions, 1.12 adds improvements and graduating stability. This release also introduces new security features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), and Kubelet TLS Bootstrap.

Amazon Web Service, Inc. (AWS) recently announced the availability of new High Memory instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Current Amazon EC2 High Memory instances, aimed to run large in-memory databases including production deployments of SAP HANA, deliver 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory – with 18TB and 24TB instances expected to arrive

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