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• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Hitachi takes its NVMe flash storage into midrange

  Hitachi storage for E Series adds two midrange block arrays based on NVMe flash technology. E590 and E790 scale to 360 TB and differ in processing performance.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Nutanix names VMware vet Ramaswami as CEO

  New Nutanix CEO Ramaswami appears to have the SaaS model background the HCI vendor sought, after helping VMware move in that direction as COO of cloud services.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  New XenData appliances provide bridge between disk and tape

  XenData seeks to simplify managing LTO tape libraries but finds itself competing with disk, public clouds, other tape vendors and 'poor storage management.'

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Microsoft closes out year with light December Patch Tuesday

  In addition to the monthly security updates, Microsoft shares a fix to address a DNS cache poisoning vulnerability that affects Windows Server systems.

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Linkerd service mesh's steady updates outlast Istio's flash

  As service mesh adoption goes mainstream, early adopters of Linkerd say it allowed them to start small and grow in scale and sophistication as needed.

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• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Juniper snags Apstra in latest acquisition

  The Apstra acquisition could help Juniper sell networking hardware and software to heterogeneous data centers and large-scale public clouds.

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  EBS Block Express helps AWS reinvent cloud SAN

  Most of AWS' storage updates at AWS re:Invent 2020 make enterprise features more accessible to non-enterprise customers, but its Block Express high-IOPS volumes are unique.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Nutanix clusters files and objects into public clouds

  Nutanix takes the next step in moving from hyper-converged infrastructure to hybrid cloud infrastructure by supporting file and object data in Clusters for public clouds.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Re:Invent recap: Week 1

  AWS' annual December deluge is in full swing. Check out this recap of all that happened in week one of re:Invent as you get up to speed on the biggest conference in cloud.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Lenovo storage expands NVMe with midrange DM ThinkSystem

  Server vendor Lenovo wants to grow its ThinkSystem storage business. The DM5100F NVMe Lenovo storage array integrates S3 protocol for unified data management.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  SUSE fuels Rancher's mission to ease Kubernetes deployment

  'It's still way too hard for people to consume Kubernetes.' How Rancher co-founder Sheng Liang, now a SUSE exec, plans to take on that problem, along with Red Hat and VMware.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  All-flash array adoption rises for NetApp, HPE

  NetApp credits AFA flash array sales as key to its gaining market share, while HPE reports significant flash increase despite overall decline in storage revenue.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Amazon EKS, ECS Anywhere broaden hybrid container management

  Amazon EKS users with hybrid cloud infrastructure may see cost savings from a new AWS Kubernetes distro and forthcoming software-only on-premises container services.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  AWS re:Invent 2020 underscores push toward cloud in pandemic

  AWS re:Invent 2020 launches with a slew of public cloud news announcements, as well as new motions by the company toward hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Intel's 3D XPoint dominance will face challenge from Micron

  Intel's Optane memory and storage products have no competition now, but that will change as Micron and potentially other vendors ramp up production in the future.

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  Next Pathway gives data warehouses a route to the cloud

  Next Pathway has introduced Crawler360, a tool for helping customers size and cost their migration from legacy data warehouses such as Netezza and Teradata to cloud platforms.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  New Agile 2 development aims to plug gaps, complement DevOps

  The new Agile 2 initiative aims to address problems with the original Agile Manifesto and give greater voice to developers who are disenfranchised in existing Agile environments.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Geek gifts 2020: Kits and gadgets for holidays at home

  The holidays in 2020 are sure to be like no other. Our geek experts recommend ways to keep them entertained while keeping their distance.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Dell still waiting for PowerStore to power up

  Dell EMC's flashy new PowerStore array has done little to remediate the leading storage vendor's shrinking midrange market share, allowing competitors to gain ground.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Pure Storage cloud licensing buoys vendor's fortunes

  Pure Storage cloud revenue grew by double digits last quarter. A new service catalog guides customers to categorize workloads for predictable performance and pricing.

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  IT governance must catch up with DevSecOps, experts say

  Government and financial services organizations that practice DevSecOps say IT governance must evolve to keep up through faster, automated control pipelines.

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  Dense processing fuels Pavilion Data storage performance

  Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array clusters multiple controllers in unified namespace that spans racks and chassis. Pavilion storage scales 2.2 PB of raw NVMe flash.

• November 20, 2020 20 Nov'20

  GitOps pros grapple with Kubernetes configuration management

  Configuration management challenges GitOps early adopters, especially at large enterprises with millions of lines of Kubernetes YAML to manage.

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Qumulo storage adds NVMe cache to NAS stash

  The Qumulo storage software code was written to operate in containers in microservices environments. The vendor swapped SATA SSDs for NVMe to cache data in front of capacity disk.

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Flash storage debate heats up over QLC SSDs vs. HDDs

  QLC flash storage is exerting pressure on spinning disk for mass storage and archiving use cases -- but HDDs will stick around for years if not decades, industry experts predict.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Observability standards emerge as Kubernetes matures

  Enterprise IT pros have tackled how to handle Kubernetes deployments. Now, they're relying on open source observability standards to help keep cloud-native apps healthy.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  VMware adds access control features to Tanzu

  VMware has added attribute-based access control to the Tanzu Service Mesh. VMware is also adding a load balancer for Tanzu-managed containers.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  IBM buys observability vendor Instana

  IBM intends to purchase Instana, maker of application monitoring and observability tools, and then couple its technology with the Watson AIOps portfolio.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  COVID-19 research generates big data, invaluable info

  When supporting COVID-19 research that could uncover treatment for the pandemic, IT and storage pros want to make sure they're 'not the bottleneck' in the process.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Rivals Dell EMC, Unitrends refresh backup appliance lineups

  When upgrading their backup appliance portfolios, Dell EMC and Unitrends addressed continued demand for backup hardware. Both also rolled out new unified management interfaces.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Kioxia flash storage sews NVMe fabric onto Kubernetes

  Kioxia's KumoScale virtualizes NVMe block volumes for consumption by file and object storage. The Kioxia flash invokes native TCP/IP drivers to install an NVMe-oF layer.

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  Puppet sets sights on unified IT automation platform, IPO

  An integrated Puppet IT automation platform that runs on Kubernetes will accompany an IPO for Puppet Labs in 2021, as the company aims to update its image for the cloud-native era.

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Japan named HPC leader as world races to exascale

  Exascale computers are due to arrive in 2021 in the U.S. and China. Developers are being urged to make these systems user-friendly and accessible.

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Flexential Archive Storage heats up with Wasabi

  Cloud storage has trended up since the coronavirus pandemic hit. Flexential and Wasabi have teamed up on an archival storage platform that takes advantage of the cloud.

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  Cisco sees an end to string of quarterly revenue declines

  Cisco is cautiously optimistic that revenues will improve following a 9% drop last quarter. Rising enterprise orders contributed to a positive forecast for the current quarter.

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  NVMe, Optane, GPUs exert big impact on enterprise storage

  Enterprises in need of high-performance storage for AI, analytics and virtualization may find help in new NVMe, Optane and processor technologies, a Flash Memory Summit panel says.

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Flash storage grows up with new EDSFF SSDs, denser 3D NAND

  Expansive new directions for flash memory technology shine brightly in the launch of 176-layer 3D NAND chips, EDSFF E1.S and Zoned Namespace SSDs, and computational storage drives.

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Windows zero-day shut down on November Patch Tuesday

  In addition to fixing the exploited Windows flaw, Microsoft rolls out a new look to the Security Update Guide that draws some criticism.

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Quantum NAS options expand with All-Terrain File System

  Quantum adds to its NAS lineup with All-Terrain File System aimed at general-purpose use cases while enhancing its StorNext parallel file system and ActiveScale object storage.

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Atlassian ITSM challenges ServiceNow with DevOps focus

  Cloud customers of Atlassian's Jira Service Management will get some Opsgenie incident management features included at no cost, as the vendor plans its ITSM expansion.

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Caringo Swarm 12 adds remote sync, SSO and updated UI

  Caringo's updates to Swarm are designed to make the object storage easier to access and manage while working with distributed data at scale as remote work becomes prevalent.

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  AMD, Nvidia chip acquisitions target Intel's dominance

  AMD, Nvidia and Intel raised the competitive heat in the chip industry with all three making strategic acquisitions to run AI workloads.

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Dell readies server with Sonic SmartNIC for branch offices

  Companies could install and manage the business application server remotely. The product would be small enough to mount on a wall and use open source Sonic for networking.

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  Honeywell's quantum computer makes a quantum volume leap

  Honeywell rolled out a quantum computer with a quantum volume of 128, accompanied by the company's first subscription program that assures users get the latest upgrades quickly.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  Adoption of Intel Optane persistent memory picks up in 2020

  Intel provides an update on adoption trends for its Optane persistent memory modules, showing that SAP HANA, virtualization and high-performance computing are top use cases.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  Composable storage startup Fungible chases hyperscalers

  Fungible's composable storage includes FS1600 block storage server and Fungible Composer management backplane. Fungible offloads data services to its FS1 Data Processing Unit.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  StorCentric buys flash storage pioneer Violin to fill gap

  StorCentric's storage portfolio added an NVMe-based midrange option to its Nexsan and Vexata lines with the acquisition of beleaguered all-flash array pioneer Violin Systems.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Observability blitz intensifies with Grafana, AppDynamics

  Grafana and AppDynamics are the latest monitoring vendors to try to capitalize on the hype around observability, as users face more complex choices than ever in this market.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  IBM Spectrum protects OpenShift container data

  IBM seeks to outdo Tanzu; Spectrum Protect for Red Hat OpenShift launches as new containers are spun into operation, and protects OpenShift Container Storage with snapshots.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  RHEL 8.3 updates target digital transformation

  Red Hat has released RHEL 8.3 with features for users engaged in digital transformation projects. New System Roles improve security and stability.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Video game hosting company uses Optane memory to cut costs

  Intel's Optane persistent memory modules enable a global online game hosting provider to expand memory and lower costs over DRAM with negligible performance difference.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  HashiCorp Nomad 1.0 expands monitoring polish, autoscaling

  HashiCorp Nomad has been used in production before its 1.0 release, but its rapid development this year makes it applicable to a wider variety of uses.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  NetApp Spot tools abstract compute, storage for containers

  NetApp Spot optimizes containers for OnTap storage. The objective is to boost data management and protection as containers migrate between Kubernetes clusters.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  StorCentric enters data management with Data Mobility Suite

  StorCentric's Data Mobility Suite helps customers manage and move data across heterogeneous storage environments. It is entering a market space with stiff competition.

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  TrueNAS Scale arrays place open source HCI into spotlight

  TrueNAS Scale gives iXsystems a foothold in converged systems. Customers can obtain it as open source software or as an integrated system based on TrueNAS storage servers.

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Microsoft's SpaceX partnership sends Azure to the final frontier

  Microsoft has partnered with SpaceX to tie Azure to low-orbiting satellites. The company also introduced a modular data center to connect remote locations to satellites.

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  HashiCorp Consul Terraform Sync creates coveted connection

  HashiCorp Consul and Terraform can now sync for network infrastructure automation, a sought-after connection some users had previously tried to cobble together themselves.

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  NetApp cloud overshadows everything else at Insight 2020

  NetApp stitches cloud services with its Data Fabric technology. NetApp Insight 2020 will showcase new cloud consumption options and storage for microservices-based applications.

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Splunk Observability integrates acquisitions, boosts AIOps

  Splunk opened the product update floodgates this week with a new Observability Suite that integrates recent acquisitions, enhanced AIOps and the purchase of two more companies.

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Bye-bye ISR, hello Catalyst 8000 for Cisco SD-WAN

  The new Catalyst 8300 Series of routers replace ISRs that customers said were ill-equipped to run the Cisco SD-WAN. Cisco also introduced Catalyst 8500 aggregation routers.

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Dell: VMware spinoff would have 'no change for customers'

  Dell CEO Michael Dell says customers aren't concerned about his company's plan to possibly spin off VMware shares; VMware's CEO says the companies will continue to 'R&D together.'

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Project Apex brings Dell into battle to control IT services

  If you were looking for new products at Dell Tech World 2020, you went to the wrong place. It's all about Dell's Project Apex initiative for selling infrastructure as a service.

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  IBM cloud revenues climb as hardware continues to decline

  IBM cloud revenues continue to increase as hardware sales drop, sharpening the company's strategy to focus on hybrid cloud.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Dell cloud shoots high with Project Apex initiative

  Dell's cloud focus culminates in launch of Project Apex, which allows data centers to flexibly consume IT and storage infrastructure as a cloud-delivered service on premises.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Intel offloads NAND flash memory to SK Hynix for $9 billion

  Intel exits NAND flash business with $9 billion sale to rival SK Hynix to focus on faster Optane SSDs and memory modules, AI, 5G networking and edge computing.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Juniper's 128 acquisition needed to improve SD-WAN

  Juniper Networks plans to 'enhance' its Contrail SD-WAN through the acquisition of 128 Technology. 128 has a more advanced SD-WAN that competes with Cisco and VMware products.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Enterprise architecture tools add pandemic-related updates

  The COVID-19 pandemic spurs vendors of enterprise architecture products to add new online and mobile capabilities and promote business functionality to address changing customer needs.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Atlassian cloud shift quickens with Data Center price hikes

  Atlassian's on-premises customer base has expressed alarm at the company's plans to discontinue Server licenses and make major Data Center price increases.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Cloud NAS vendor Ctera adds security, migration Mac support

  Along with making its NAS platform faster and more secure across multiple clouds, Ctera adds Mac support for its Enterprise File Services Platform's more creative users.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  DDN storage unifies IntelliFlash, Nexenta, Tintri pickups

  DDN launches IntelliFlash H-Series and Tintri VMstore T7000 hybrid arrays. The new NVMe-based systems incorporate technology from recent DDN storage acquisitions.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  NetApp OnTap 9.8 revamps replication, storage arrays

  NetApp OnTap SnapMirror Business Continuity provides failover with granular copy management. NetApp FAS and AFF arrays hit the market as file vendor gears up for digital user event.

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  IBM partners with HBCUs to promote quantum computing

  IBM is partnering with a group of historically Black colleges and universities to set up a quantum computing center in hopes of attracting Black students to the field.

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  HashiCorp wades into continuous delivery with Waypoint

  HashiCorp launched another new open source project this week, this time a continuous delivery utility called Waypoint, which IT pros hope will simplify DevOps deployments.

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Red Hat bolsters Ansible-Kubernetes bond via OpenShift ACM

  Red Hat previewed new ties between its Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Kubernetes within its Advanced Cluster Management tool, as container platform competition intensifies.

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  HashiCorp launches Boundary for cloud security

  HashiCorp revealed its first new open source project in five years this week: a cloud security framework for access control called Boundary.

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Critical TCP/IP bug gets fixed for October Patch Tuesday

  The number of security updates from Microsoft dips below the average of the previous several months, but a TCP/IP bug looms large for administrators.

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  File system software startup Quobyte chases IT, developers

  Quobyte tempts developers and app owners with a free version of its distributed parallel file system software, hoping they will convince their IT admins to buy fully supported editions.

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  You can now run a Nvidia vGPU on VMware infrastructure

  VMware's partnership with Nvidia aims to make machine learning more accessible. By pairing Nvidia vGPUs with vSphere, companies can accelerate computing and maintain management.

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Service mesh upstarts challenge Istio, Linkerd

  Istio seemed destined for Kubernetes-like dominance in the service mesh market, but recent open source governance drama created an opening for competition from networking vendors.

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Komprise expands data management coverage to Azure

  Komprise deepened its relationship with Microsoft, opening shop in Azure Marketplace and enabling customers to easily manage hot and cold data between Azure and Azure Blob.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Cisco ordered to pay $1.9B in Centripetal security patent suit

  U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. ruled that Cisco's infringement of Centripetal Network's patents was 'willful and egregious.' Cisco said it would appeal the ruling.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Sumo Logic ships tools for AWS, Kubernetes observability

  Sumo Logic has rolled out AWS and Kubernetes observability tools with automated root cause analysis. Users say they offer easy setup at an affordable price.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  IBM to spin off IT services to focus on hybrid cloud, AI

  IBM will spin off its Managed Infrastructure Services unit as a public company to focus on hybrid cloud and AI.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 seeks to corral unstructured data

  Dell looks to snap server sales slump with two new PowerEdge XE servers. The dense models have flexible configurations of compute, storage and networking, and joint code development with Splunk.

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Oracle launches Cloud Observability and Management Platform

  Oracle's new Cloud Observability and Management Platform seeks to appeal to customers with complex multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  New LeanIX EA module can ease linking IT to business goals

  LeanIX's new Business Transformation Management module tries to simplify planning through its 'GitHub for IT architecture' approach and Apple Time Machine-like visualization tool.

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Rancher Kubernetes bolsters security, multi-cloud management

  Rancher Kubernetes stays ahead of competitors in multi-cloud management with version 2.5, but will its innovation and SUSE's backing be enough to fend off Red Hat and VMware?

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Ardoq architecture tool adds new Scenarios planning module

  The new Scenarios module in Ardoq's enterprise architecture tool enables customers to model and analyze potential future states in a collaborative way.

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  VMware bulks up vSAN against container-native threats

  As VMware embraces Tanzu and Kubernetes, it expands vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure software to try to make it a better fit for developers who embrace containers.

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  StorOne storage system flexes data protection muscles

  StorOne enhances its All-Flash Array.next storage system based on Intel Optane and QLC NAND drives with data protection features for disaster recovery.

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Exchange Server vNext will have subscription requirement

  The news from Microsoft from this year's Ignite show for Exchange administrators was: You can keep your on-premises email platform, but you'll have to pay for it like Office 365.

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  VMware updates vRealize Network Insight, NSX-T

  Launched at VMworld 2020, the latest version of vRealize Network Insight has verification technology that lets managers see the impact of network changes before deploying them.

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  AWS Cost Management adds anomaly detection

  AWS has added an Anomaly Detection service to its Cost Management suite that applies machine learning to a customer's usage and fires off alerts when thresholds are exceeded.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMware unveils rearchitected vSphere as Project Monterey

  At VMworld 2020, VMware unveiled a rearchitected vSphere dubbed Project Monterey. The new product will benefit VMware customers across industries, an analyst said.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  The Open Group finalizes Open Agile Architecture standard

  The Open Group published a new standard to provide guidance and best practices for enterprise architects transitioning to Agile methodologies for digital transformation.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMware Tanzu Kubernetes strategy hits integration milestone

  VMware follows competitors in shipping a fully integrated Kubernetes infrastructure package, but vSphere tie-ins and a strong AWS partnership will bolster its enterprise appeal.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Private cloud networking creates public cloud UX on premises

  Organizations can run a private cloud like a public cloud with the help of the right networking and security tools and achieve agility and flexibility on premises.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  TechTarget announces Best of VMworld 2020 Award winners

  The Best of VMworld 2020 Awards highlight the most innovative products from VMware ecosystem partners. Here are the winners of all six categories and the Best of Show.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Winners of the Best of VMworld 2020 Awards

  Best of VMworld 2020 Awards recognize the most innovative new products associated with VMworld 2020. A panel of judges named winners in seven categories, including Best of Show.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Dell EMC, Pure embrace VMware storage innovations

  VMware Site Recovery Manager for Virtual Volumes lets customers replicate VMs with Dell EMC PowerMax snapshots. VMware storage management includes Tanzu for Kubernetes clusters.