Today at the Everything Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Austin, Texas, Univa Corporation announced that it is launching a new way to manage enterprise container workloads on Kubernetes distributions, Navops Command. Navops Command is designed to allow enterprises to take full advantage of Kubernetes distributions by implementing sophisticated workload placement and advanced policy management.
Today at the IEEE International Memory Workshop in Paris, IBM Research announced that its scientists have made a breakthrough in phase-change memory (PCM). This relatively new memory technology (in the sense of how it is being used) holds much promise. However, this was the first time scientists were able to store 3 bits of data per
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it was launching a series of new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) solutions for SAP HANA environments. These latest UCPs are based on the new Intel XEON E5 and E7 processors and include the UCP 1000 for SAP HANA, UCP 6000 for SAP S/4HANA, UCP 6000 for SAP
Today Backblaze released its latest hard drive reliability for the first quarter of 2016. This time around Backblaze evaluated over 60,000 drives (61,523 to be exact). All of the hard drives in Backblaze’s data center equaled to over one billion hours, nearly 42 million days or 114,155 years worth of spinning hard drives.
Synology recently announced the DiskStation DS916+, which brings scalability and new components to their DS415+ model. This marks Synology's latest addition to their Plus Series, which is comprised of servers that are designed to appeal to growing businesses and media enthusiasts. The main selling point of this NAS pertains to its scalability: users can effectively
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced that is has expanded its data compression guarantee as well as introducing a new 2x data reduction guarantee. HDS isn’t the only game in town when it comes to guarantees but they claim that they are the only vendor to offer a 100% data availability (100% availability, 100% of
Dell Inc. announced the latest release of its database replication and near real-time data integration solution, SharePlex. Dell is continuing to expand on SharePlex’s replication capabilities we last reported on. The latest release allows replication of Oracle data directly to SAP HANA, Teradata, or EnterpriseDB Postgres. This release continues Dell’s message of spending less time
Today at Apache Big Data North America 2016, the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) announced that it has become a gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ODPi will join the ranks of the other gold sponsors such as Pivotal, IBM, WANDisco, and Hortonworks (it should be noted that all of the other sponsors
Caringo has added hierarchical data protection policies, historical metrics and usage metering to Caringo Swarm, the company’s software-defined object storage platform. This results in improved flexibility and ease of operation for users. Caringo continues to build on the platform, earlier this year Caringo made Swarm available for Microsoft Azure.
Samsung has announced the EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, which is touted as the maret’s highest capacity microSD card for its class. Designed for smartphones, tablets, 360-degree video recorders, action cameras, and even drones, consumers can record up to 12 hours of 4K UHD video (or 33 hours of Full HD video) on their mobile
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