Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to

Today NETGEAR, Inc. announced its new Managed Business Router BR200. The BR200 is designed with small to medium and remote offices in mind. The smaller to medium guys can offer their employees and customers secure access to an office intranet through a secure site-2-site Virtual Private Network (IPSec VPN).

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TrilioVault for Kubernetes now available with IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat Marketplace. SIOS AppKeeper now available in AWS Marketplace. XPG launches GAMMIX S50 Lite SSD. AWS launches T4g instance. Aerospike announces upgrades

Today, Seagate released the Exos X18 enterprise drive. The Exos X18 is the largest Seagate Exos X HDD drive to date with a listed capacity of 18TB. Seagate has been operating since 1979. The company is one of the most widely known manufacturers of HDDs and SSDs.

Today Pure Storage announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ​Portworx​. Portworx is known for being a Kubernetes data services platform enterprises trust to run mission-critical applications in containers in production. This is Pure’s largest acquisition with a number of roughly $370 million. Pure Storage is stating that the deal will

VMware rolled out several updates earlier this morning. Dell Technologies followed suit with its own HCI portfolio, but more tightly integrating VMware with VxRail. Further pressing into the new capabilities and features released by VMware, Dell is also announcing Dell EMC ObjectScale Early Access for a select number of its customers.

Today, VAST DATA released a storage platform with a delightful name, LightSpeed. VAST Data released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding in 2016, two series A, one series B, and one series C.

Piggybacking on the VMware’s announcements today, Dell Technologies announced that it was more tightly integrating VMware Tanzu on Dell EMC VxRail. On top of Tanzu, Dell and VMware are integrating the new vSAN and vSphere releases into VxRail. And Dell is taking advantage of the new VMware Cloud Foundation remote cluster management functionality for VxRail

Today, VMware has announced new product releases and offerings to simplify customer’s applications and infrastructure modernization. The company has updated its portfolio with a vast number of items, including VMware vSphere with Tanzu, VMware vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware vSAN 7 Update 1, VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 with Tanzu, VMware Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Standard