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News Bits: DDN, IBM, VMware, Crucial, Nasuni, Virtual Instruments, & 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. IBM and DDN work together to provide Yahoo! Japan a 50TB/day transfer rate with a new active archive system. Virtual Instruments announced Load DynamiX Enterprise version 5.2. VMware has made its integrated containers generally

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 10

Today Red Hat announced the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10. The latest version is based off of OpenStack’s ‘Newton’ release. The new version is filled with new features aimed at enhancing performance and security, increasing scalability, improving orchestration, and easing management. On top of that, Red Hat

Violin Memory Files For Chapter 11

Violin Memory has had a rough go of it recently but it appears as if they are nearing the end of their rope. Violin was a pioneer of early all-flash arrays, which are becoming more and more common in data center, along with all-flash data centers. However, the company was been plagued with issues for

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Veeam Announces GA Of Its Agent For Linux

Departing from its long tradition of making agentless backup products, Veeam has announced that it is now making an agented backup for Linux. While this may seem like a bit of an odd move for the company, they do point out that not all workloads can be virtualized because of hardware dependencies amongst other reasons. Now

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Druva Unveils Its Cloud Platform

Today Druva unveiled its new information management platform designed to accelerate the full enterprise cloud-first ecosystem, the Druva Cloud Platform. This new platform is aimed at accelerating cloud-first strategies while addressing issues such as data risks that come from fragmentation and data growth. Druva’s new platform will also be addressing issues such as extracting greater

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Quantum Announces StorNext 5.4

Today Quantum Corp. announced the latest version of its scale-out storage platform comprised of a wide range of advanced data management capabilities optimized for demanding workflows, StorNext 5.4. Version 5.4 will include the ability for customers to integrate their existing public cloud storage accounts (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) wand third-party object storage (NetApp StorageGRID, IBM

Stratoscale Introduces Symphony 3, An On-Prem AWS Region

Today Stratoscale announced the availability of the latest version of its comprehensive cloud infrastructure software, Stratoscale Symphony 3. The new version of Symphony expands its software-defined infrastructure solution to enable a hybrid and AWS-based strategy. Stratoscale claims that the new version with its new cloud services help companies achieve agility, flexibility, mobility and short time-to-market.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Nexenta Introduces NexentaEdge DevOps Edition

Nexenta has announced a new edition of its NexentaEdge, its file and object storage platform. The new NexentaEdge DevOps Edition is designed to work with scalable on-premise container-converged infrastructure as a high-performance storage solution.

Enterprise

Dell EMC Expands Its HCI Portfolio

Today Dell EMC is expanding its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) by combining the former two companies technologies once again. Dell EMC’s is taking its VxRack software-defined data center (SDDC) and is now basing it on PowerEdge servers. According to the company, this combination will enhance flexibility while increasing performance.