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• June 29, 2021 29 Jun'21

  JFrog to acquire Vdoo, take 'shift right' view of DevSecOps

  The combined companies will expand JFrog's Xray tool to embed security throughout its DevSecOps pipeline products, with a focus on application artifacts, rather than source code.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  New Seagate Exos storage uses self-healing drive technology

  Seagate's Exos Corvault petabyte-scale storage array introduces self-healing HDD capabilities to ease maintenance and adds erasure coding to protect data at lower overhead.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Kubernetes security automation saves SecOps sanity

  As Kubernetes clusters grow and multiply, IT pros rethink their security automation approach to keep SecOps functions manageable while maintaining flexibility for developers.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Datadobi's DobiMigrate helps Decathlon sprint to cloud storage

  Datadobi's DobiMigrate software allows Decathlon, an international athleticwear retailer, to transition its data to numerous major cloud providers and sunset on-prem data centers.

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Ctera teams with Varonis on new file monitoring, controls

  Varonis adds another storage provider to its growing list of partners, and Ctera offers increased protection and controls for users via a new partnership.

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• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Pat Gelsinger reorganizes Intel, creates datacenter, AI group

  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has reorganized business units and moved executive leaders to focus on AI, graphics and other emerging data center technologies.

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  DOD enlists IT vendors for new DevSecOps missions

  In the second year of its DevSecOps project, the Department of Defense is fielding bids to resell its DevSecOps platform and is funding research into software supply chain security.

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  HPE bolsters GreenLake with support for Microsoft Azure Stack

  HPE took another step toward its goal of being mainly a software-as-a-services company by 2022 with new services for GreenLake and several partnerships, including Microsoft.

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Oracle offers on-premise support discount for cloud buyers

  Oracle's latest bid to attract customer workloads to its public cloud involves discounts on traditional software license maintenance and support fees.

• June 18, 2021 18 Jun'21

  PwC cloud report points to 'value gap'

  Despite widespread enthusiasm for cloud computing, many organizations have yet to see a significant payoff from their investments, a PwC cloud study found; other news.

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  OpenShift Virtualization gives KubeVirt enterprise foothold

  Industry experts are wary of OpenShift Virtualization, but some Red Hat users favor it to help with application modernization and, in one case, nested Kubernetes clusters.

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Infinidat expands beyond HDDs with new all-solid-state array

  Infinidat's new all-solid-state InfiniBox SSA storage array is built on the same deep-learning software and DRAM cache technology that its flagship disk-based InfiniBox models use.

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Harness baits CI/CD set with feature flags, cloud auto-stop

  New modules from Harness may entice customers to buy more of its CI/CD software, but unseating DevOps pipeline tools from larger vendors remains a daunting challenge.

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Animation studio adopts fully remote workflow using Qumulo

  Animation and advertising studio Psyop transitioned to fully remote work with the help of Qumulo, a hybrid cloud storage vendor with products specifically for media companies.

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  Cisco DNA Center update tackles customer headaches

  The latest DNA Center upgrade simplifies deploying the campus network controller and scaling the platform to handle more endpoints. Cisco plans to release it in mid-June.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Prisma Cloud CSPM looks to mitigate DevSecOps conflicts

  Palo Alto Networks' CSPM product uses machine learning to tackle a point of DevSecOps friction -- too many security alerts that aren't tied to imminent threats.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  HashiCorp Consul pricing adjusts to SaaS

  Some users balked at HCP Consul pricing when it first became available, prompting HashiCorp to add a Starter SKU, though it has yet to release specifics on cost.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Microsoft resolves 6 zero-days for June Patch Tuesday

  The tech company confirmed there were signs of exploitation in the wild for the vulnerabilities that affect Windows desktop and server operating systems.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Honeywell, Cambridge Quantum Computing form new company

  Honeywell merged with Cambridge Quantum Computing, combining their respective quantum computing offerings to chase opportunities in the cybersecurity market.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  HashiCorp Terraform 1.0 features stability, upgrade relief

  With graduation to a stable version, HashiCorp Terraform users won't have to deal with any more breaking changes in new versions of the infrastructure-as-code tool.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Cloudian gives AWS Outposts a bigger home in the data center

  Cloudian Hyperstore's AWS Outpost readiness lets customers deploy on-premises object storage alongside Outposts for more cost-effective and scalable storage.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  NetApp, Equinix team up for hybrid cloud storage subscription

  NetApp will roll out numerous updates to its enterprise catalog, including a new storage-as-a-service subscription that provides hybrid cloud privacy with public cloud features.

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  Oracle Cloud lures developers with 'Always Free' services

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lags rivals, but the company hopes that a broader set of free services will draw interest from a critical constituency – developers.

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Cisco readies portfolio for hybrid cloud, modern data centers

  Cisco tackles hybrid cloud complexity with the introduction of the UCS X-Series unified computing system, ThousandEyes integrations and Intersight advancements.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  AI, new skills and self-defense code emerge as app-dev musts

  Gartner analysts paint an app-dev vision for 2021 and beyond marked by AI-driven tooling, novel approaches to app security and new skills.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Microsoft buys ReFirm Labs to bolster IoT firmware security

  Microsoft has bought ReFirm Labs in an IoT security play. The company said Refirm's open source-based products would help it address firmware vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  New Dell VxRail systems improve speed, resource management

  Dell VxRail hardware and software updates improve performance and ease deployment and management, while enabling discrete compute and storage scaling for demanding workloads.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Nasuni offers Windows File alternative on Google Cloud

  Cloud storage vendor Nasuni has made its flagship cloud file storage service available through the Google Cloud Marketplace, with the added enticement of migration services.

• May 28, 2021 28 May'21

  Jitterbit buys iPaaS vendor for EDI, e-commerce capabilities

  Jitterbit broadened its reach to retailers and their trading partners with the acquisition of eBridge Connections to address EDI and e-commerce use cases.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Wasabi CEO plots global expansion for its cloud storage

  New data centers, increased market attention and more are planned for cloud storage company Wasabi by its CEO David Friend after a $137 million Series C funding round.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Juniper ships first major Apstra release

  Juniper said the latest update to its recently acquired Apstra network automation product sends a message to customers that the company is committed to multi-platform support.

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  New Relic streamlines DevOps monitoring tools amid upheavals

  Amid price reductions, executive changes and layoffs, New Relic hones ease of use for its DevOps monitoring tools in a bid to boost its cachet among software engineers.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Oracle's new Arm-based cloud instances target penny pinchers

  Oracle enters the Arm-based processor market alongside other top-tier cloud providers to improve price-performance for cloud app development.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Pure Storage CEO zones in on enabling digital transformation

  Pure Storage's CEO said the company will probably pursue acquisitions beyond its 2020 Portworx purchase to further assist customers in their digital transformation efforts.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Atlassian Forge fills key role in cloud migration strategy

  After a two-year development effort, Atlassian Forge is generally available as a distribution point for the add-on apps users need to match on-premises features in the cloud.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Backblaze B2 update adds more S3 features

  The latest version of Backblaze's B2 cloud storage adds better security features and S3-compatible integrations ahead of a partner API rollout later this year.

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Open source effort seeks to build tech diversity into code

  A CNCF initiative to build tech diversity directly into open source code and documentation takes shape as the industry faces pressure to become more inclusive.

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Pandemic-fueled cloud rush causes cost optimization woes

  Amid the rise in cloud adoption prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises seek to contain and optimize costs through practices such as FinOps.

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  WANdisco introduces Hive metadata migration to Databricks

  WANdisco LiveData Migrator can now move Hive metadata alongside Hadoop data to Databricks, saving customers from a lengthy and manual transformation process.

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  LucidLink eyes Filespaces upgrade, biz expansion with new funding

  LucidLink CEO Peter Thompson discusses his company's plans into 2021 and new storage market expansion possibilities after a $12 million Series A funding round.

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Demand for Cisco products rises during pandemic recovery

  Cisco reported higher product demand and sales as massive COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the U.S. led companies to prepare for an economic recovery.

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Spurred by pandemic, BizDevOps becomes a reality

  In diverse industries from healthcare to banking and manufacturing, nontechnical teams are adopting Agile approaches to work alongside digital tools once used primarily by engineers.

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  CircleCI nabs $100M, buys Vamp release orchestration

  Along with recent $100 million venture funding round, CI/CD vendor CircleCI has acquired the Vamp release orchestration platform to bolster its tools offering.

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Cisco's latest acquisition spree nabs three companies

  Cisco's acquisitions, announced this week, would improve event hosting in Webex, boost network speeds for 5G, and enhance its security platform. Deal terms were not released.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  IT pros see AWS SaaS Boost as a rudimentary start

  AWS SaaS Boost may give developers a place to begin, but the new open source project needs work to become more than a lock-in tool for AWS, according to industry observers.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  StorOne moves into the cloud with Azure storage service

  StorOne has expanded its software-defined storage product to Azure, promising lower prices and the ability to adjust storage needs on demand.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Pure Storage updates management tool, integrates Portworx

  Pure launched its first Portworx container storage update since acquiring the startup last year and enabled management through its newly updated Pure1 management tool.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  May Patch Tuesday brings more bad news for Exchange admins

  Microsoft releases four fixes for the email server product, which remains firmly in the sights of threat actors seeking new ways to exploit the system.

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  VMware's surprise CEO pick brings cloud tech chops

  VMware has named a new CEO in Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram, who will be a familiar face to longtime customers. Raghuram takes over the top job on June 1.

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  VMware Tanzu service mesh tie-in syncs multi-cloud networks

  Newly tightened integration between VMware's Tanzu service mesh and Avi load balancer is meant to simplify provisioning, facilitate multi-cloud failover and automate cloud bursting.

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Cisco bolsters CSP portfolio with Sedona Systems acquisition

  Cisco's acquisition of Sedona Systems is expected to add significant carrier technology for 5G slicing and routed optical networking.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM hybrid cloud, AI offerings ease data integration

  IBM rolled out new hybrid cloud and AI offerings this week, while CEO Arvind Krishna offered his vision for how those technologies will reshape business.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Dell EMC PowerScale adds all-NVMe, Nvidia GPUDirect options

  A Dell EMC PowerScale update adds a high-end all-NVMe F900 model with Nvidia GPUDirect support for AI and analytics workloads plus a OneFS 9.2 upgrade to improve performance.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM hangs its hopes on hybrid clouds, AI to revive growth

  After a decade of stagnant growth, IBM is betting all of its chips that hybrid clouds, new partnerships and AI will catapult it to a more competitive position.

• May 10, 2021 10 May'21

  ServiceNow adds Lightstep observability as BizDevOps grows

  BizDevOps is taking off amid widespread digital transformation, and ServiceNow's Lightstep buy could bring observability to teams via its workflow platform.

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Belgian telecom picks Datadobi for NAS migration

  Large-scale storage migrations can be difficult without the help of a software tool, as telecom Proximus Group found.

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  CNCF projects hone multi-cluster Kubernetes management

  Cluster API is considered production-ready by early adopters of multi-cluster Kubernetes, while a new multi-cluster API and control plane prototypes take shape.

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Prometheus Q&A: How the Kubernetes monitoring tool is evolving

  Prometheus has a reputation for being hard to work with. Richard Hartmann, a member of the Prometheus team and community director at Grafana Labs, talks about how that might be changing.

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  IBM's 2 nanometer CPU roadmap heats up chip manufacturer race

  IBM continues its push to be more competitive in the chip manufacturer competition, showing off its first 2 nanometer chip expected to boost performance of its Power and Z series mainframes by 40%.

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  New Relic open sources Pixie observability platform

  The Pixie Kubernetes-native observability platform is now available to the open source community after New Relic, which acquired the tech last December, contributed it to the CNCF.

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Dell Apex launches data storage, cloud as-a-service options

  Dell's new Apex data storage and cloud services take aim at HPE GreenLake and other as-a-service options that bring the public cloud operating model to on-premises infrastructure.

• 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.

• 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 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  Gartner cloud forecast bodes well for service providers

  Gartner predicts end-user public cloud spending to reach $332.3 billion this year, with SaaS representing the largest area of investment; other IT channel news.

• 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

  Cloud consulting services attract investor dollars

  A spate of deals involving Ensono, Ahead, Upstack and Syntax reflects growing confidence in cloud consulting firms; other IT channel news.

• 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.