During the past year, IBM has been changing its storage software portfolio to simplify navigating and understanding product offerings. To that end, IBM Spectrum becomes IBM Storage, reducing the number of products to a more manageable set focusing on software-defined, open, and consumable services.

VAST Data has announced software release 4.6 + 4.7, calling it the largest software release in its history. It is so big Jeff Denworth, VAST Data CMO, compiled a blog that outlined the capabilities and indicated there would be more to come because it couldn’t be done in a single blog post.

The Pure Storage FlashBlade//E is a scale-out unstructured data platform that delivers better economics than disk with all the benefits of flash. An extension of the FlashBlade//S high-performance arrays, FlashBlade//E offers customers an alternative to spinning disks for bulk data storage with a competitive price point and lower operational costs.

KIOXIA has announced that they will be participating in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2) program to help with scientific experiments and research aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Dell Technologies has recently announced the release of new PowerEdge servers designed specifically for telco, open RAN, and mobile edge computing workloads. The new Dell PowerEdge XR8000, XR7620, and XR5610 servers are compact, energy-efficient, and based on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Dell also launched Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat and the Dell

This has been a long time coming. I for one am excited to finally see that Microsoft has brought Windows 11 for ARM support to the Mac platform (M1 and M2 at the time of writing).

Synology has recently released its SAT5200 Series SATA SSDs. These NAS SSDs are designed to handle mixed and intensive 24/7 workloads without compromising on endurance, providing a streamlined storage experience on Synology systems with minimal service disruptions.

Synology has announced the DiskStation DS1823xs+, a powerful central storage server designed for use in environments where no dedicated server rack or data center is available. Ideal for small and medium-sized businesses, the Synology DS1823xs+ provides shared data storage and sharing, endpoint and server backup, VM storage, surveillance management, and other business applications. With its

Scale Computing adds Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for Fleet Manager, eliminating the need for IT staffing at the edge and reducing the costs of adding or replacing hardware. The ZTP feature of SC//Fleet Manager provides cloud-like simplicity for administrators, allowing them to centrally configure clusters of edge computing infrastructure before nodes arrive on-premises, reducing the installation