NetApp has announced the acquisition of Fylamynt, a CloudOps automation technology company that enables customers to build, run, manage and analyze workflows securely in any cloud with little to no code. This is the fourth acquisition for Spot by NetApp in the past two years.

The Supermicro SuperEdge is a new short-depth, multi-node server specifically optimized for 5G, IoT, and Edge applications. It is built to excel in high-density compute and I/O environments where a small form factor solution is needed such as in retail, branch office, or field locations use cases.

Synology has released its first significant beta update to DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.0, bringing it to version 7.1. The jump to 7 from 6.X was a major one, including an overhaul of GUI for a much more streamlined look-and-feel and a focus on addressing security issues that were plaguing NAS users at the time. While

Netgear has introduced the WAX630E, an Insight Cloud Managed Access Point, featuring a new ultra-wide, ultra-fast WiFi frequency band. The WAX630E supports 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands to deliver an aggregate speed of 7.8Gbps WiFi throughput. A 2.5Gbps PoE port and a 1Gbps Ethernet port are supported on the new AP.

QNAP has announced the immediate availability of their dual-CPU, NVMe all-flash storage TDS-h2489FU NAS, which is purpose-built for HPC, virtualization, file servers, and 4K/8K multimedia applications. The new NAS is highlighted by its Intel Xeon Silver 4300 processors (16 or 32 Cores) and twenty-four U.2 NVMe Gen 4 x4 SSD bays and is quoted over

Seagate has added to its PS4 and PS5 console external storage portfolio with the new officially licensed Game Drive. This includes a collaboration with one of the most highly-anticipated games of the year, Horizon Forbidden West. Available in capacities ranging from 2TB to 4TB, the new external hard drive is firmware-optimized for both PS5 and

Broadcom has announced the Gen 7 64G Fibre Channel switch platform, the Brocade G730 Switch. The G730 is a high density, secure, 128-port core switching platform for the autonomous SAN. They also announced the industry’s first double density 64G Fibre Channel optical transceiver that expands the port density for the Brocade G730 and G720 switches.

VMware has announced general availability for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 (VCF) with integration for NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite. VCF 4.4 delivers the latest innovations in full-stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) as a hybrid cloud platform. We did a deep dive about a year ago when Dell and EMC were still married. You can read about that

NetApp announced general availability for the latest release of Netapp Astra Contol, delivering new data management functionality, broader support for storage providers, new K8s platforms, and certification on Openshift. Astra Control provides application-aware data protection and now includes enhanced support for Azure Disks and Google Persistent Disks and Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes Service