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• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  IT pros make a case for GitOps in IT governance

  GitOps requires shifts in IT team mindset and workflows, but enterprises with regulatory compliance and strict IT governance mandates say the pros outweigh the cons.

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  HPE storage hones cloud focus with new array, data console

  HPE has sharpened its cloudlike operations approach with a new Alletra storage array, management console and cloud data services available by consumption and subscription options.

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Verizon media group sale brings cash for 5G network

  Verizon's sale of the media group, which includes AOL and Yahoo, comes as it deals with a cash crunch and $129 billion in debt. Verizon competes with AT&T and T-Mobile.

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  Endeavor Energy sparks colocation move with Datadobi

  Facing impending office construction, Endeavor used Datadobi's DobiMigrate to move its production workloads and corporate file storage to a colocation facility.

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  Dell strikes $4 billion deal to sell iPaaS specialist Boomi

  Dell nails down a $4 billion cash agreement to sell integration-platform-as-a-service vendor Boomi to investment firms just weeks after spinning off VMware.

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• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  StorCentric CEO Mihir Shah eyes more acquisitions

  StorCentric CEO Mihir Shah discusses the company's 2021 plans, future acquisitions and more.

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Excelero adds option to pool NVMe storage on Azure cloud

  A new deployment option for Excelero's NVMesh software-defined storage will target some of the most demanding applications running on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  AWS, QCI look to bridge classical and quantum computing

  Quantum computing startup QCI has developed a SaaS-based offering for AWS' cloud platform in hopes of bringing classical and quantum computing platforms closer together.

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Atlassian Open DevOps beats 'good enough'

  Atlassian's new Open DevOps strategy taps best-of-breed DevOps tools for integration into a single toolchain to ease the burden for software development teams.

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Red Hat refocuses on IT operations as cloud use expands

  Red Hat renews its focus on IT operations, which have become both more complex and more crucial amid the rise of DevOps and cloud-native applications.

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Atlassian Jira Work Management overhauls BizDevOps features

  Atlassian has offered a fresh take on BizDevOps with Jira Work Management, which replaces Jira Core for enterprise legal, marketing and HR teams.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Quantum updates StorNext architecture and appliance lineup

  Quantum distilled its StorNext file system down to a single 2U appliance. The new H4000 promises easier deployment without losing StorNext's speed or data management capabilities.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 doubles down on edge computing

  The latest version of RHEL gives users additional management features and includes capabilities that will serve as the foundation of Red Hat's edge computing initiative.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  New IBM Spectrum Fusion storage takes aim at container users

  IBM introduces Spectrum Fusion to target enterprises in container environments that span data center, edge and hybrid cloud environments.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Red Hat OpenShift lays foundation for hybrid cloud services

  Amid a post-pandemic cloud shift, Red Hat looks to meet customer needs and beat out competitors with new OpenShift-based managed services for distributed applications.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  StorageOS powers media file movement for IMT's SoDa

  Integrated Media Technologies has selected StorageOS to support its platform for moving media and other unstructured files between storage tiers.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Scality launches Artesca object storage for Kubernetes

  With object storage increasingly becoming primary storage, Scality Artesca targets demanding workloads such as AI, machine learning, big data analytics and in-memory applications.

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Intel breaks silence on effects of Micron's 3D XPoint exit

  Intel's director of technology initiatives was surprised by Micron's exit from 3D XPoint business and confirms company's plans to have Optane on emerging CXL interface.

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 ups the 'dev' in DevOps

  Microsoft's Visual Studio 2022 will provide devs with 64-bit performance, better accessibility, improved collaboration with Live Share and a new UI for the Mac.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Pulumi cloud engineering boosts dev infrastructure control

  A Pulumi early adopter says this week's cloud engineering update will save time and resource costs with more support for developers to test infrastructure-as-code plans locally.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Storj Labs unveils AWS S3-compatible developer gateway

  Storj Labs has unveiled a developer gateway to integrate blockchain-based distributed cloud storage with any Amazon S3-compatible application.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Nvidia SDK simulates quantum computing circuits on GPU systems

  Nvidia edged its way into the quantum computing market with an SDK that simulates quantum circuits by adding horsepower to classical systems that assist in quantum development.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Dell EMC speeds up PowerStore array, debuts lower-cost model

  Dell Technologies launches new lower-cost PowerStore entry model and PowerStore software updates to enhance performance, automation, NVMe over Fibre Channel and Optane support.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Atlassian Jira shrinks ITSM competitive gaps with ThinkTilt

  Atlassian Jira Service Management chips away at incumbent ITSM vendors' market lead with low-code/no-code IP from ThinkTilt, but it must keep adding features to fully catch up.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Log management tools add finesse to Elasticsearch

  Vendors that bring log management expertise to open source Elasticsearch helped unlock collaboration and incident response for companies that had struggled with ELK on their own.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Quobyte CEO says customers need a scale-out mindset

  In order to tackle AI, machine learning and other demanding workloads, enterprises need to break out of their appliance-centric approach to storage, according to Quobyte's CEO.

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Aruba product integrations advance its SASE strategy

  Aruba's latest SASE-related integrations involve the Silver Peak-based SD-WAN, Threat Defense and the ClearPass Policy Manager. More product integrations are likely.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Software AG's WebMethods update adds tools for non-IT users

  Software AG's WebMethods upgrade aims to ease digital initiatives for IT pros and business users with new app integration, API management and microservices orchestration features.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Tasktop brings new visibility to value stream management

  Value stream management is central to digital transformation at scale. VSM vendor Tasktop has a new dashboard that gives users a clearer view of their software delivery processes.

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Engineering firm mitigates ransomware attack with Nasuni

  Ransomware got in through an exploit in an older version of SQL Server, but Dennis Group used Nasuni to restore its systems back to a pre-attack state with minimal data loss.

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Service mesh SaaS springs up in fragmented market

  Service mesh is complex, and users can choose from among many vendor products. New SaaS versions offer a way for them to try different approaches without making a big commitment.

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Exchange Server bugs continue to bite on April Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft resolves 110 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day and four public disclosures, but the company says admins should prioritize four critical bugs on Exchange Server.

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Eclipse Foundation aims open VS Code registry at Microsoft

  The Open VSX Registry is now at the Eclipse Foundation, which gives developers an open source destination to get VS Code extensions apart from the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace.

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  IBM boosts vertical cloud push with financial services cloud

  IBM doubles down on its investment in vertical markets, rolling out a financial services cloud that shares workloads with clouds in telecommunications and healthcare.

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Arista simplifies network management in latest CloudVision

  Arista's CloudVision 2021 has better analytics for spotting network congestion and a dashboard for monitoring Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace and other applications.

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  GitHub Mobile brings new push notifications to developers

  The latest version of GitHub mobile delivers push notifications to developers in a manner that enables them to set time frames for when they can and cannot be reached.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  MinIO launches trio of enterprise management features

  MinIO has launched Operator, Console and Subnet Health to make multi-tenant object storage deployment and management for Kubernetes simpler for IT administrators.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  New Vast Data Gemini selling model offers better economics

  Vast Data now allows customers to buy integrated appliances on hardware with the capacity and performance levels of their choice, with full transparency on the hardware costs.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Puppet Relay links event-driven IT automation to Enterprise

  Puppet's Relay event-driven automation framework ships this week, with Puppet Enterprise integration that can link cloud-native workflows with on-premises infrastructure and apps.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security

  Intel launches third-generation Xeon Scalable processors that bolster security, accelerate common data center workloads by 46% on average and support up to 40 cores per processor.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Verizon, AWS launch mobile edge computing platform

  The AWS, Verizon mobile edge computing offering is a managed service that combines private 5G connectivity with AWS Outposts.

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  CircleCI brings CI/CD to Arm running on Graviton2 chips

  AWS has added support for Arm-based processors to its popular CI/CD platform. It now runs on AWS' Arm-based Graviton2 processors to give developers more choices.

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Cisco integrates ThousandEyes with AppDynamics, Catalyst

  The latest Cisco ThousandEyes integration adds internet intelligence to the AppDynamics application performance dashboard, a plus for AppOps and NetOps teams in Cisco shops.

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  OSDU Data Platform opens door to new apps in energy sector

  A new OSDU standard aims to bring information from oil, gas, wind, solar and other sources into a single data platform to help energy companies address future demand.

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  VMware offers new subscription for hybrid cloud deployments

  An offering dubbed VMware Cloud presents a new option for customers that want to pursue hybrid cloud strategies supported by a subscription model, but it has limitations.

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  What to expect from 2021's data storage conference lineup

  In the coming months, data storage conferences are plentiful. This roundup details dates, sessions and topic areas, from event hosts such as SNIA, Dell and Pure Storage.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Sysdig adds cloud security to container observability mix

  Some IT experts believe Sysdig could appeal to enterprises by combining cloud and application security data in one interface, within a broader DevOps observability tool set.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Fungible computational storage eyes composable use cases

  Fungible's computational storage anchors a new offering for composable infrastructure. The Fungible Data Center license allows IT teams to consume resources on demand.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Cisco network as a service for hybrid clouds on the horizon

  Cisco's first network-as-a-service product will deliver hybrid cloud infrastructure. The company plans to start selling the NaaS offering and an all-in-one SASE product this year.

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Iridia CEO sees data storage future written in DNA

  As investors show interest in Iridia's DNA chip technology, its CEO believes using synthetic DNA for data storage will be the way to tackle a yottabyte future.

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  IT automation helps healthcare companies adjust to pandemic

  COVID-19 forced most businesses to upgrade their technology but adding IT automation to accommodate the growth in virtual services was most critical in the healthcare industry.

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  LeanIX adds SaaS, microservice management to product lineup

  Enterprise architect specialist LeanIX expanded its portfolio through the purchase of SaaS management startup Cleanshelf and the introduction of a Microservice Intelligence tool.

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Harness preps enterprise AI expansion for CI/CD tools

  An enterprise continuous integration product Harness plans to launch next quarter will inject AI features for CI in a bid to raise the company's profile against its many rivals.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Pure Storage FlashBlade anchors B2B marketer's Azure cloud

  Digital marketing specialist MultiView deployed a physical Pure Storage FlashBlade for production data, with the ability to consume all-flash storage as a virtual array in Azure.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Cisco Intersight folds in Terraform Cloud amid SaaS revamp

  Cisco has expanded its partnership with HashiCorp and readied a SaaS-managed Kubernetes service as it vies for a share of the software-centric market for cloud-native apps.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Amazon Care expands as demand for big tech regulation grows

  Amazon expands its healthcare delivery service Amazon Care against the growing interest in telehealth and the growing intensity of big tech regulation.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  ServiceNow enters RPA market with Intellibot acquisition

  Taking its cue from corporate users focused on both low- code and automation, ServiceNow has acquired Intellibot for its robotic process automation (RPA) products.

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Amazon taps Tableau CEO Selipsky to lead AWS

  Amazon has named a familiar face to lead AWS in Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS is poised for massive growth under his leadership.

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Nutanix software transition tops new CEO's to-do list

  Nutanix software licenses account for most of its revenue. The HCI pioneer hired CEO Rajiv Ramaswami away from VMware, which alleges breach of contract.

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Saltworks, Secure Code Warrior team up to secure the SDLC

  Saltworks and Secure Code Warrior have forged a partnership to help developers integrate security into the lifecycle and learn to write more secure, higher-quality code.

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Nordic bank fights money launderers with log analytics

  The IT team at Lunar created an interface into its log analytics system for the bank's fraud investigators, which helped uncover specific data about questionable accounts.

• March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21

  Sentry adds performance monitoring for React Native, more

  Sentry has added support for React Native, Android, Xamarin and Flutter-based apps to its application performance monitoring platform to help developers find and fix bugs.

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  AWS adds serverless capability to S3 object storage

  Amazon introduced a feature to process data as it is being retrieved from S3. This allows use cases such as on-the-fly format conversion or PII redaction.

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Sonatype buys MuseDev to boost code analysis

  Sonatype has expanded its addressable market for developers with the acquisition of code analysis tool vendor MuseDev. The move builds out Sonatype's software quality platform.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure adds next-gen AMD EPYC instances

  Oracle hopes new AMD EPYC instance types that deliver more performance at the same price as the previous generation can bring more attention to its IaaS.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  IBM tools speed mainframe application modernization projects

  IBM has released new versions of its application modernization tools designed to bring its Z series of mainframe applications in closer alignment with its development pipeline.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Diamanti Spektra completes cloud trifecta with GCP support

  Diamanti Spektra 3.2 added support for Google Cloud, extending the platform to all three major public clouds, as well as CRI-O support for customers that want to replace Docker.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Micron ends 3D XPoint development to focus on CXL products

  Micron ends development of 3D XPoint and shifts its focus to CXL-enabled memory products, raising questions on the future supply source of Intel's Optane memory.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Cloud file vendors try to woo enterprise storage buyers

  Some enterprises want cloud file storage to complement or replace legacy NAS. Several product enhancements last week target issues of cost, data security and remote shared storage.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs over two years

  The job cuts stem from a major restructuring that formed four business groups, including two focused on emerging technologies like cloud-delivered network infrastructure.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Nokia partners with largest cloud providers on 5G RAN

  Nokia's RAN-related partnership with AWS, Microsoft and Google solidifies its strategy of delivering cloud-based 5G infrastructure to service providers and major enterprises.

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Power Fx informs Microsoft's low-code strategy

  In a Q&A, Microsoft corporate vice president Charles Lamanna delves into the company's Power Fx, a new low-code tool that non-programmers can use to build applications.

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Boomi Flow adds support for multi-cloud, hybrid deployments

  Dell's Boomi subsidiary expands the deployment options for its low-code Flow workflow automation tool to public clouds and customers' on-premises data centers.

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  Energy company swaps index cards, Excel for DevSecOps

  Manually tracking thousands of cloud connections was unsustainable for a $36 billion energy company, forcing a cultural and technical shift to DevSecOps.

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  VMware vSAN storage update eyeballs HCI scaling challenges

  The VMware vSAN storage update aims to help enterprises start with a small HCI deployment. Customers gain the option to connect compute servers to existing storage vSAN clusters.

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  FalconStor's turnaround prospects see glimmer of progress

  FalconStor's annual revenue continues to slump, but an increase in net income, new customer bookings and a renewed focus on cloud data storage bring hope to the company.

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Developer-first security raises Snyk's tides, among others

  Armed with a developer-first focus on security, Snyk has been able to draw $300 million in new funding. It also quadrupled its valuation to $4.7 billion in just over a year.

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Mendix dumps cluttered DevOps monitoring tools for Datadog

  The IT teams that run Mendix PaaS sped up incident response by tossing out a confusing mix of DevOps monitoring tools and settling on one vendor.

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  ServiceNow Quebec platform goes after the low-code market

  ServiceNow has released a new version of its Now Platform that caters to inexperienced developers looking to build customized applications and workflows quickly.

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  News briefs: Koch Industries picks Alkira, Palo Alto

  Koch industries combines Alkira networking and Palo Alto security for remote office connectivity; Cisco promotes three women on International Women's Day; AT&T, Fortinet partner.

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Kong service mesh paid version eases policy management pain

  IT pros could cobble together an open source service mesh with Open Policy Agent on their own, but Kong Mesh will let them skip that struggle for a price.

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  AWS helps train formerly incarcerated people to code

  The Justice Through Code program, which Amazon sponsors, teaches formerly incarcerated individuals how to write code in Python as it preps them for careers in the tech industry.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Exchange Server issues loom over March Patch Tuesday

  For many organizations that rely on Exchange for reasons in addition to email, a move to a more secure messaging platform is not an option.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Nvidia launches integrated AI platform for VMware vSphere 7

  Making good on their promise last fall, Nvidia and VMware have delivered a platform allowing vSphere 7 users to run the next generation of AI-based applications.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Lyft helps drive new foundation for mobile developers

  The Linux Foundation, along with Lyft, wants mobile developers to ride together and help eliminate obstacles in building large-scale, enterprise Android and iOS apps.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Prisma Cloud hatches DevSecOps plans for Bridgecrew

  Palo Alto Networks will add Bridgecrew DevSecOps tools to Prisma Cloud and open its considerable coffers to fund the new acquisition's infrastructure-as-code projects.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  HPE SimpliVity gains cloud backup and Kubernetes CSI plug-in

  SimpliVity has added integration with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup and HPE StoreOnce to enable easier backup at the edge, as well as a new Kubernetes CSI plug-in.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Linkerd 'opt-in,' developer accessibility sway IT pros

  Not every enterprise needs the detailed configurability of Istio service mesh, and devs can unobtrusively experiment with Linkerd alongside other Kubernetes workloads.

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Microsoft ACS going GA with preview of Teams integration

  Microsoft Azure Communication Services is now in preview, with deep integration with Microsoft Teams so developers can build real-time user experiences.

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Cisco completes $4.5 billion Acacia deal

  Cisco said it will sell and support Acacia's optical networking products separately. Cisco will also continue selling the technology with its switches and routers.

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Pure Storage cloud deployments include dedicated bare metal

  Pure Storage on Equinix Metal allows customers to build a Pure Storage cloud on dedicated all-flash tenants. Equinix is rolling it out in 18 U.S. and international markets.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Nexsan launches cloud edition of Assureon immutable vault

  Nexsan Assureon can now be deployed on Azure and private clouds, no longer tying its immutable storage and active archive capabilities to Unity appliances.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Power Fx: Microsoft's low-code language for Power Platform

  Microsoft has extended its low-code application development strategy with a new programming language known as Power Fx that will be consistent across the Power Platform.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  StorOne builds hybrid flash arrays based on Seagate hardware

  StorOne S1 flash management stack is tuned for optimal run on Seagate Exos Application Platform 5U servers. Four configurations are available that mix Seagate disk and SSDs.

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  HPE acquires CloudPhysics, targets cloud migration projects

  Hoping to up its visibility in the cloud computing market, HPE acquired CloudPhysics this week in hopes of simplifying cloud migration projects by leveraging AI.

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  COVID-19 research spurs IHME to 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo storage

  Seattle's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation opts for 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo hybrid storage appliances to handle massive data sets generated through COVID-19 research.

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Istio service mesh users tackle real-world integration

  Once IT pros set up Istio in production, they face an even bigger challenge: expanding it to the rest of the IT infrastructure, from multi-cluster environments to VMs.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  GitHub hires first-ever chief security officer

  GitHub has added a CSO to its ranks, as the platform seeks to grow and maintain one of the world's largest collections of open source software projects.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  After Istio architecture upheaval, leaders pledge stability

  The Istio service mesh went through major disruptions in 2020, from technical redesign to governance shifts. Now, project leaders vow to tackle lingering IT ops issues.

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Next Pathway update targets Hadoop migrations

  Next Pathway's data scanning and migration tools can now analyze Hadoop ecosystems and translate its codes to cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake and Amazon RedShift.