Today Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced the addition of the BlueField family of software-defined SmartNIC adapters to its portfolio. Designed for scale-out server and storage applications, these new adaptors bring new capabilities with their embedded ARM processor cores and accelerators. Based off of Mellanox’s BlueField SoC, the new SmartNIC adaptors are stated to have up to 200Gb/s

Today NetApp announced its new AI-enabled virtual support assistant, Elio, and its new Active IQ cloud-based analytics. These new features are designed to deliver an insight-driven digital customer experience informed by its deep knowledge base, predictive analytics, proactive support, and cognitive computing. NetApp goes on to claim that these new solutions enable customers to gain

Today NetApp announced that it would be the data services technology behind first-of-its-kind cloud- centric capabilities for the hybrid cloud. NetApp will be powering the first Network File System (NFS) service in the cloud, the Microsoft Azure Enterprise NFS Service. On top of that, NetApp and Mircosoft are announcing a handful of other deeper integrations

Today Western Digital Corp. (WDC), under its HGST brand, released the world’s first enterprise 14TB HDD, Ultrastar Hs14. The Hs14 is designed for cloud and hyperscale data centers that need more density. The Hs14 is host-managed, and leverages shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Not only does the new Ultrastar drives deliver 40% more capacity, with its

QNAP has announced the release of their TS-x31P2 (available in 2-bay and 4-bay) and TS-431X2 (4-bay) NAS solutions featuring quad-core processors. Designed for SMB and SOHO users, both new series support Snapshots so users can restore the NAS to a previous state in the event of hardware failure or when suddenly hit by ransomware/malware attacks. The TS-431X2 also

Actifio unveiled the largest software release of the company’s history with Cloud-Centric Sky Platform 8.0. The latest version enables organizations to deploy Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) across multi-directional, multi-cloud, and hybrid Cloud environments to further accelerate the pace of enterprise digital transformation. Actifio states that the release if the culmination of over two and a half years

Premio has launched their next generation of server and storage solutions that now feature Intel’s Skylake Xeon Processors. This will bring various substantial improvements to Premio’s high-performance storage lines such as their all-flash Flachestream solution (FlacheSAN1L-D5, FlacheSAN2V-D5, and FlacheSAN2-D5), high-availability Durastreams solution (DSS424S-D5), general-purpose Omnistream solution (OSS1A4-5, OSS212L-D5, OSS212F-D5, OSS224-D5, OSS316-D5, and OSS424-D5), and high-density

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. Cisco completes its acquisition of Springpath. Rubrik releases Alta 4.1. NVIDIA Integrated GPU Insights into vROPs. Rozo Systems announces RozoFS 3. Maxta introduces VMware vSphere Escape Pod. Trilio announces general availability of TrilioVault 2.5.

Our News Bits is a roundup that typically covers news pieces that are just small in content, not in impact. This gives content room to breath even if it comes in less than what we normally cover. At Microsoft Ignite 2017 there were several announcements that either small or would potentially get wiped out by some of the