Today at NetApp Insight, the company announced that it was bringing better optimization and enterprise data servers to the Cloud. These include a new serverless and storageless solution for containers from Spot by NetApp, new autonomous hybrid cloud volume platform, and cloud-based virtual desktop solutions. The new announcements center on simplifying and optimizing the cloud

Today at NetApp Insight, the company announced that it was partnering with the virtualizing AI infrastructure company, Run:AI, to enable faster AI experimentation with full GPU utilization. The two companies will speed AI by running many experiments in parallel, with fast access to data, utilizing limitless compute resources. The goal is the best of all

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Backblaze hard drive stats For Q3 2020 are out. Commvault HyperScale X Reference Architectures and Remote Office Appliance launched. Robin.io Express Edition launched. Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise announced. Ivanti adds innovations

This week, GIGABYTE Technology announced two new rack servers that come with expanded DIMM slots as well as a new internal storage/expansion slot. The two new servers are the R162-ZA0 and R262-ZA0, designed for data centers and virtualization, and do so with cost savings, generational improvements, and server space maximization. The servers will feature 2nd

VMware has announced the availability of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, based on the recent acquisition of Datrium. This solution is currently VMware’s on-demand disaster recovery (DR) offering, intended to be delivered as a simple and easy-to-use SaaS solution, leveraging cloud economics benefits. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery will enable IT and business continuity teams to easily

Scale Computing announced it is offering Acronis Agentless Backup for Scale Computing HC3. The company also announced that it is also now offering Acronis Cyber Backup 15 Advanced. We last covered Scale Computing’s partnership with Acronis earlier this year in March, when Scale Computing started offering Acronis Cloud Storage. More recently, we did a deep

Today, Diamanti announced a new standalone software product based on their existing Kubernetes management solution, Diamanti Ultima. Just three months ago, Diamanti announced the 3.0 version of Diamanti Spektra. Diamanti was founded in the early 2010s and provides open-source Kubernetes platforms. Earlier this month, the company announced support for Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform.

This week Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced its new portfolio of PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 controller solutions. The controllers will be aimed at performance, mainstream and value SSD applications and consist of SM2264 for performance, SM2267 for mainstream and SM2267XT for value DRAM-less client SSDs. The higher performance controller comes with speed claims of 7.4GB/s

Today, Alluxio released a new update to their Data Orchestration Software, Alluxio 2.4, the company develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2.3 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just three months ago, in July. Before that, we covered the addition of a structured data service