VMworld has been renamed VMware Explore this year. I, along with Kevin and Tom are excited that we will be able to attend in person!  VMware Explore 2022 will be held inside the newly revamped Moscone Center in San Francisco from August 29 to September 1.

StorPool Storage v20 adds new capabilities including NVMe/TCP, StorPool on AWS support, and NFS File Storage. The StorPool Storage platform is designed for large-scale cloud infrastructures running workloads that require low latency and is highly reliable.

Dell’s latest software release for PowerFlex is now available, taking these SDS systems to Dell PowerFlex 4.0. The updates were teased at DTW earlier this year, highlighted by new lifecycle management options and deployment through NVMe/TCP.  For a little more background, we did an introduction to PowerFlex when it was rebranded in 2020.

Pliops announced that it closed an additional $100 million Series D funding round bringing the total investment in the company to over $200 million since starting in 2017. Pliops provides data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers and recently released the Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP).

EK is adding to their Fluid Works Compute Series with a new rackmount liquid-cooled GPU server, the X7000-RM. This new liquid-cooled server is purpose-built for high-compute density applications including machine learning, artificial intelligence, rendering farms, and scientific compute simulations.

QNAP has announced their new professional-grade NAS, the TS-410E, specifically meant for multimedia center and noise-sensitive use cases with its fan-less cooling design and high-speed I/O specifications.

A coalition of cybersecurity and technology leaders from 15 companies, along with Splunk, AWS, and Broadcom, has announced an open-source effort to break down data silos that impede security teams by integrating security tools and resources. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project announced at Black Hat USA 2022 will help organizations detect, investigate, and

The fourth annual AWS Storage Day highlighted features for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), the new Amazon File Cache service, updates to the AWS Transfer Family of products, and five new AWS Storage Learning Badges. The updates and new services are geared toward reducing and optimizing storage costs while continuing to focus on data

NVIDIA used the SIGGRAPH conference to announce a wide range of developer frameworks, tools, apps, and plugins for NVIDIA Omniverse, the platform for building and connecting metaverse worlds based on Universal Scene Description (USD).