Today Dell Inc. and NTT DATA Inc. announced that they have entered a definitive agreement for NTT DATA to acquire Dell Services. Dell Services, formally Perot Systems, is an IT consulting service that works closely with markets such as government departments and hospitals. NTT DATA will be acquiring Dell Services for a little over $3
Today Synology Inc. announced another new 4-bay NAS server, the DiskStation DS416slim. The DS416slim is a compact, energy efficient NAS server aimed at home users and professionals. The NAS is easily transportable and can hold up to four 2.5” drives for a max capacity of 8TB. And like all of Synology’s NAS devices, the DS416slim
Today at the GCP Next event Google introduced its new unified monitoring, logging and diagnostics service, Stackdriver. Unique to Stackdriver is that it allows users to monitor applications across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) or a combination of both. According to Google, this is the first service that provides rich dashboards,
Google Cloud Platform has been introducing and working on big data and analytics products and services for some time now. The industry as a whole is seeing the promise in these products and services. Today at Google’s GCP NEXT event, they announced new innovations, products, and services surrounding data management and analytics capabilities. These new
Today QNAP Systems, Inc. announced that is has released two new enterprise-class rackmount NAS devices, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 and TS-ECx80U R2 NAS series. These new devices are updates to the previous TVS-ECx80U-SAS/TS-ECx80U series, now with two built-in SFP+ based 10GbE ports but still the same price as the previous series.
Today the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs) (including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Quantum) released shipment data and a new report detailing tape media shipments. The data shows that 76,000PB of compressed capacity shipped in 2015 (up 17.8% from the previous year). The new report being launched shows both 2015 and year-over-year generational data. LTO
Today QNAP Inc. launched its new double server, the TDS-16489U. This new server leverages dual Intel Xeon E5 processors and integrates an application server and storage server into one chassis. The new double server is designed to tackle Big Data Computing and to assist enterprises in mission-critical tasks as a one-device solution for applications, storage
Today Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) announced that they were jointly working on a new archive storage tier for supercomputing data. The two companies are working together to find a way to store the massive amounts of data that are being generated in a way that saves power and is easy
Google has announced that its Docker container orchestration system, Kubernetes, has hit its 1.2 release. This release is aimed at larger organizations building distributed systems, providing performance upgrades as well as easier deployment and management. Kubernetes has had over 680 unique contributors so far, and 1.2 marks its largest release to date.
Today Druva announced that it is expanding its data protection with for its Druva inSync to now support end-user data sources Box, Google Apps for Work (Google Drive, Google Docs and Gmail) and Office 365 (Exchange Online). With the new support of these cloud applications Druva has expanded its data protection enabling enterprises to have
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