Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its new high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. These new solutions include a comprehensive software-defined platform, enhancements to its Apollo servers, as well as, a new ANSYS computer-aided engineering (CAE) software based solution designed to help manufacturing organizations optimize their design simulation deployments.

Today VMware announced the release of its new beta of the Docker volume driver for vSphere. This marks the second storage-focused initiative from VMware on containers, last year they released a vSphere Volume Driver for Flocker. VMware is also making the source code for their new driver available under open source to encourage use and

Today at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle, Washington, NetApp announced the integration of its complete flash portfolio (including NetApp SolidFire SF series, All Flash FAS (AFF) and EF-Series) with the NetApp Docker Volume Plug-In (nDVP). According to NetApp, the native Docker plug-in allows containerized applications to easily maintain state by consuming persistent storage. Docker developers will

Today at DockerCon 2016, Hedvig Incorporated announced its new end-to-end CloudScale Reference Architectures that aim to provide enterprises with infrastructure templates that are proven and tested. Hedvig states that these new Docker solutions will help enterprise DevOps and ITOps teams save time, lower costs and reduce the complexity of deploying containers using Docker Datacenter, Windows

Today Intel announced the release of yet another Xeon processor family, the Intel Xeon E5-4600 v4 family. This family is designed specifically for 4 socket servers used in next-gen data centers and cloud deployments. Intel states that servers utilizing these new processors can now have up to 22 cores and 44 threads for enough processing

This week Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced what it is calling the most advanced 10, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet intelligent adapter on the market, ConnectX-5. ConnectX-5 introduces several new features that that are aimed at enabling higher performance, future-proofing, and ROI. ConnectX-5 introduces smart offloading engines as well as being the

Today ContainerX announced the general availability of its new comprehensive, multi-tenant container container-as-a-service (CaaS) platform designed for enterprise IT admins. The company is announcing two paid versions one aimed at midmarkets and another aimed at larger enterprises. On top of that, ContainerX is also announcing a free version enabling companies to setup a CaaS environment

Today Pivot3 announced its first joint product since its acquisition of NexGen, the latest version of vSTAC. According to Pivot3, this new version will take HCI past where it is currently being used (VDI, backup, DR, and ROBO) and bring it into the full spectrum of data center applications.

Hot on the heels of last week’s update to RING Version 6.0, Scality has announced the General Availability of its S3 Server software, an open source version of its S3 API. Scality S3 is packaged as a Docker container, which is designed for easy deployment on a single server. Scality indicates that it will allow