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• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Automate, customize CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipes

  Atlassian's new Bitbucket Pipes helps developers automate and customize DevOps pipelines to boost developer productivity.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  IBM quantum computing may arrive sooner than expected

  If IBM continues doubling the performance of its quantum computers, as recent benchmarks indicate, it could deliver the first commercial system in the next three to five years.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Container management tools must overcome limitations

  As container adoption surges, the management tools organizations need to support these deployments at scale are still in their infancy.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

  Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ...

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  March Patch Tuesday shuts down two zero-day exploits

  In addition to the March Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft's attempts at improving performance following Spectre variant 2 patches backfire for some users on Windows 10.

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• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  AWS Elasticsearch distro stokes open source competitive fires

  The new AWS-backed Open Distro for Elasticsearch may constitute a fork of the popular distributed search and systems analytics engine. What it means for customers is yet to come.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search

  Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

  The NVM Express consortium finalized the specs for NVMe-over-TCP fabrics in November. Lightbits Labs' launch features software-defined storage, an appliance and an accelerator card.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Startup gives Datrium DVX subscription pricing

  With Datrium Forward, the software-defined storage startup looks to deliver a 'cloudy feel' to pricing for its DVX storage that spans on premises and in Amazon Web Services.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Vexata readies VX-Cloud architecture with server partners

  Vexata is thinking outside the box. The NVMe all-flash array vendor is sampling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform reference architecture with major server vendors. The hardware design combines ...

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Nvidia acquires Mellanox against growing AI, data competition

  Nvidia acquires Mellanox for $6.9 billion, as competition increases for platforms that can handle AI and other data-intensive platforms.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Paradox: Violin Systems all-flash stays small to grow large

  Violin engineers all-flash storage systems for data centers that require ultrafast performance. The vendor also added ISE G4 arrays from X-IO for secondary storage.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Release automation tools link legacy, modern app management

  Release automation tools will evolve in 2019 to embrace advanced application development and infrastructure automation techniques.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  IBM quantum computer roadmap moves full speed ahead

  With IBM releasing its latest benchmark, the company's quantum computer appears to be consistently, if not slowly marching toward commercial reality.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'

  Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ...

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD

  See how startup NGD Systems' 16 TB NVMe-based SSD can run applications inside the SSD controller to eliminate the need to move data between storage and host.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Google Cloud Storage price plan stresses data gravity's pull

  Google Cloud Storage's expanded annual budget framework may give customers more cost savings and control, but they should consider other factors such as vendor lock-in.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Infinidat InfiniBox preps SMB protocol nodes for Windows

  All-flash arrays command most of the attention, but Infinidat claims its InfiniBox arrays deliver the performance of flash on commodity-priced spinning disk.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers

  Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  AWS CloudFormation complaints spark roadmap pledge

  AWS has responded to user complaints over feature lag and a perceived lack of organizational support for CloudFormation, its popular native infrastructure-as-code service.

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Container security tools turn heads with expansion to hosts

  Vendors that sell container security tools now face off against traditional security tool providers, as both vie for the attention of IT pros who look to fortify their cloud-native infrastructure.

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  AI-powered WLAN behind Juniper-Mist acquisition

  Juniper plans to acquire WLAN vendor Mist for $405 million. The Juniper-Mist acquisition is an offensive move that fills a hole in the networking vendor's campus portfolio.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation

  Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Jon Toigo, data storage analyst and author remembered

  Editors and colleagues pay tribute to the respected data storage analyst, pundit and author, who was a longtime Storage magazine columnist and TechTarget contributor and speaker.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Nutanix HCI position under fire due to sales slump

  Nutanix CEO says HCI sales slowdown is temporary because its technology remains strong; in the meantime, Dell-VMware is pushing HCI deeper into the enterprise.

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Azure Sentinel adds AI-driven SIEM for cloud security

  Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's take on a security information and event management platform, relies on AI for threat detection and competes with the likes of Splunk.

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Pure Storage cloud arrays add flash to Rackspace Service Blocks

  Rackspace data centers have the option to buy Pure Storage FlashArray//X as a consumable service on a dedicated array to facilitate running block storage in clouds.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable

  JFrog's acquisition of Shippable gives JFrog another arrow in its DevOps quiver and enables its customers to use an integrated DevOps platform that includes CI/CD.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Sensu architecture smoothes monitoring data workflow for NCR

  Sensu Go's architecture and monitoring as code prompted NCR to switch away from Zabbix and pass on SolarWinds, as it sought to collect data from 80,000 restaurant customers.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Istio security drives Auto Trader UK move to GKE

  The U.K.'s largest online automotive marketplace put Istio security features in place before it adopted containers and GKE, rather than the other way around.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  TaylorMade Golf takes a shot with Oracle cloud database

  TaylorMade Golf's move to Oracle's cloud data warehouse has produced major performance improvements, but other important Oracle workloads will remain on premises for now.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  AWS month in review: More improvements for hybrid cloud

  Amazon polished several services in February to simplify management of AWS hybrid cloud architecture. It also added five new EC2 bare metal instances and upgraded Amazon GuardDuty. Find out how AWS ...

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Cloudability seeks to broaden the cloud cost management discussion

  Enterprises can use a variety of software tools to control cloud spending, but they would further benefit from an operational model that aligns IT more closely with finance teams.

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Startup Vast Data: Death to disk storage

  With $80 million in funding, the all-flash startup unveils its exabyte-scale Universal Storage system that it claims will make disk storage unnecessary in the data center.

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Macroeconomics, service providers behind ICT spending slowdown

  Service providers will buy less information and communications technologies, contributing significantly to an overall slowdown in ICT spending this year and next, IDC said.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  New NVMe Western Digital SSDs target cloud, hyperscale and edge

  Western Digital adds two new enterprise NVMe SSDs as the enterprise and cloud markets shift from SATA SSDs to faster NVMe. The new drives include 64-layer 3D NAND.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  VMware PKS adds Heptio IP, boosts container street cred

  VMware adds bare-metal Kubernetes and an elite support squad from Heptio, but it's unlikely to get widespread interest with bespoke container orchestration on premises.

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Mainframe DevOps forces platform reckoning for enterprises

  DevOps has reached the mainframe world, where a few enterprise 'unicorns' have blazed a trail with new tools for the rest of the IT industry.

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Kemp 360 Vision analyzes F5, Nginx data

  The latest version of the Kemp 360 Vision service can apply predictive analytics to data taken from F5 Networks and Nginx load balancers.

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  IBM adds Power to Watson Machine Learning

  While they debuted few whiz-bang offerings, IBM did roll out a handful of products that allow users to run AI technologies across more platforms, including Power Systems servers and competitor clouds.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  GitHub security bug bounty program stretches to enterprise cloud

  GitHub's bug bounty program for 2019 increases the reward money for researchers who find security vulnerabilities in the company's code.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  HPE, Juniper intro 5G hardware for the edge

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks have introduced 5G hardware for service providers' network edge.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  TensorFlow.js brings machine learning to JavaScript

  Google has delivered a version of its TensorFlow machine learning library to support JavaScript developers, and the technology has proved to be a hit with users.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage

  German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors.

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Google buys Alooma to bolster its cloud data migration chops

  Google Cloud will acquire Israeli startup Alooma in a bid to add to its data migration portfolio. The move follows last year's acquisition of cloud migration vendor Velostrata.

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Google Cloud Services Platform presses hybrid cloud agenda

  Google has pushed its Cloud Services Platform for hybrid computing into beta. The software is based on Google Kubernetes Engine and is geared toward application modernization.

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Pure Storage all-flash gains ObjectEngine backup appliance

  All-flash vendor Pure Storage provides ObjectEngine inline deduplication appliance to reduce data locally and shuttle it to S3-based object storage for analytics, DR and reuse.

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Lenovo TruScale adds twist to cloud infrastructure on demand

  With TruScale Infrastructure Services, Lenovo tries to catch up with Cisco, Dell and HPE, customizing TruScale to a customer's workload and helping customers avoid capital expenditures.

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  AI democracy, hybrid clouds top IBM Think takeaways

  IBM's extension of its Watson AI services beyond the IBM Cloud to users on other cloud platforms impressed IBM Think attendees, but is it ready for enterprise use? Meanwhile, IBM's hybrid cloud and ...

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019

  Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ...

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  Cisco earnings, revenue show strength of product roadmap

  Cisco earnings and revenue show customers are putting aside global uncertainties and buying into the company's shift toward a more software-centric form of networking.

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years

  Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Container security tools pitch service mesh integrations

  Container defense in depth is a hot topic, and some IT pros approach it with a combination of third-party container security tools and service mesh security features.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio fray dominates service mesh battle

  Linkerd's maintainers admit it has a narrower range of features than buzz machine Istio. But after failed attempts to set up Istio, some early adopters believe less is more.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  HPE InfoSight to add support for partners' storage products

  HPE GM of storage Milan Shetti outlines plans to add support for partners' storage products in its InfoSight predictive analytics platform and talks up its AI operations-centric strategy.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  SnapRoute cloud NOS leans on Kubernetes for orchestration

  SnapRoute has introduced a network operating system for cloud environments. The cloud NOS, called Cloud Native Network OS, uses Kubernetes for network orchestration.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Mendix deepens native integration with IBM Cloud, Watson AI

  IBM cloud users gain low-code options, as Mendix's re-engineered platform natively integrates with IBM Cloud services, particularly Watson AI and Kubernetes container orchestration.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  IBM renews code challenge to stress-test open source projects

  IBM's Code and Response challenge builds on last year's Call for Code to apply open source development efforts to actual natural disasters.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  New Dell EMC all-flash Isilon hardware compresses NAS data

  Dell EMC Isilon F810 all-flash NAS array and ClarityNow software tackle unstructured file data through increased performance and data reduction over previous versions.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Microsoft zero-day vulnerability closed on Patch Tuesday

  Administrators should prioritize patching systems affected by a zero-day vulnerability resolved by the February Patch Tuesday updates.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Netsurion intros low-maintenance SD-branch

  Netsurion has introduced a software-defined branch product for retailers, hotels and restaurants. The managed SD-branch, called BranchSDO, includes networking and security.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  IBM's hybrid cloud plans extend AI to users across platforms

  IBM doubles down on its hybrid cloud strategy with tools to help customers funnel data through their chosen cloud platform and apply IBM's AI to it all.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Container security vulnerability prompts call to patch runC

  The discovery of a container utility flaw means IT pros must patch most container runtimes, as well as practice defense in depth and beware of strangers with sketchy container images.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  IBM Storage Solutions draw up blueprint for blockchain storage

  IBM offers up blueprints for blockchain storage, with NVMe arrays and software for scale-out.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Google eyes confidential computing to buff cloud security cred

  Google Cloud Platform's Asylo open source project could one day boost confidential computing efforts, but for now it mainly serves to boost Google's security bona fides.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes multi-cluster app support fuels IT debate

  To federate or not to federate cloud-native apps? As Kubernetes becomes ubiquitous, that is the question that more IT shops must answer.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Ionic 4 taps Web Components for mobile app development

  Ionic 4, a rebuilt version of Ionic's web and mobile development platform, conforms to the Web Components standard and expands support to all popular JavaScript frameworks.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  WAN access focus of Cisco Viptela-DNA Center integration

  The first phase of integration between the Cisco Viptela SD-WAN and DNA Center is aimed at providing WAN access from branch offices.

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  AIOps wars heat up with New Relic-SignifAI deal

  An already heated struggle between DevOps monitoring vendors becomes an all-out rumble, as New Relic acquires SignifAI and ups the AIOps ante for rivals.

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Top Dell EMC storage technologists talk NVMe, SCM and containers

  Podcast: Dell EMC technologists discuss their 2019 expectations for the growth of storage class memory, NVMe-oF, multi-cloud, container and smart storage technologies.

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  UK news org plots move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform

  Google Cloud Platform has scored one against rival AWS with The Telegraph's plan to switch providers to prep the British newspaper for continued success in digital publishing.

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Carbon Relay debuts AI-based software for data center cooling

  Newcomer Carbon Relay has introduced two products that use artificial intelligence to help IT pros manage data center efficiency.

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  HCI software maker Maxta shuts down after funding failure

  Maxta tried to carve a niche in hyper-converged infrastructure with MxSP software for industry-standard x86 servers -- the business model HCI pioneer Nutanix shifted to in 2018.

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Kite boosts Python code completion with machine learning

  Software development tools startup Kite applies machine learning models to help developers automate the process of completing lines of code in real time.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Cisco DNA Center takes intent-based networking to IoT

  Cisco has introduced IoT-enabled hardware that companies can manage through Cisco DNA Center. The connection between products takes intent-based networking to IoT deployments.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  IBM, CTA: Apprenticeships key to bridging IT skills gap

  Apprenticeships might help to cut the shortage of skilled IT workers and help companies keep pace with demands for new apps and services for their employees and customers.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  IBM storage revenues skid to the finish line

  IBM storage hit another blue period last quarter. After pulling out of a revenue slump to start 2018, IBM last week closed an uneven year with declining sales of storage hardware, mirroring flat ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  AWS month in review: Cloud SLAs abound

  AWS added 11 cloud SLAs to its platform in January as it continues to lure enterprises to higher-level services. The contracts should make the services more palatable to organizations that require ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Uncertain future of open core software puts companies at risk

  Many enterprises rely on commercial vendors for open source software support, but the open core business model isn't always a solid bet for longevity.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Open source in the enterprise presents a two-edged sword

  The price is right for pure upstream open source IT management software, which also offers IT pros control over their own destiny. But some enterprises aren't prepared for the long-term costs.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal

  Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics

  Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Vexata storage gets a boost from Fujitsu deal

  Fujitsu North America agrees to sell Vexata arrays. The vendors plan demos in the Fujitsu Solutions Lab and are preparing reference architecture SKUs for Oracle, SAP and VMware.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Google Cloud Firestore points NoSQL database at mobile, IoT

  Google's NoSQL document database, Cloud Firestore, is now generally available to offer better scale and reliability for mobile and IoT apps and keep pace with AWS and Azure services.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  France, HPE are building Europe's most powerful AI supercomputer

  France is building a supercomputer that can perform both traditional high-performance computing workloads and AI-specific workloads. The converged design is becoming increasingly common.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Cisco APIC controller heading for AWS, Azure

  The latest version of the Cisco APIC controller is designed to bring consistency to managing network fabrics on AWS, Microsoft Azure and private data centers.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Cloud storage outlook favors private and multi-clouds in 2019

  Experts say 'we've reached the point of no return' on cloud storage, as cloud-native applications, private and multi-clouds and Kubernetes gain prominence in 2019.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes

  University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Cisco expands CloudCenter for multi-cloud management

  Cisco hopes additions and changes to its CloudCenter software will appeal to companies that want to work with multiple clouds.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Enterprise flash storage price drop tops 2019 predictions

  Flash storage buyers will find lower NAND prices and more enterprise options in 2019, according to the crystal balls of industry executives and analysts.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Automation potential outweighs SDN deployment risks

  SDN deployment varies among service providers and enterprises due to risks, costs and use cases. But, when it comes to SD-WAN, both groups appear to agree about the potential.

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Vanderbilt books Spectra tape library for research data

  Research data can accumulate fast. A Spectra Logic tape library stores petabytes for Vanderbilt's research center, and the university plans to use far more backup storage space.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Arrcus chasing larger rivals with 400 GbE NOS

  Arrcus has introduced a 400 GbE network operating system, demonstrating a maker of a stand-alone NOS can keep pace with the largest networking companies.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Microsoft grabs Citus Data, expands Azure open source options

  Microsoft's acquisition of Citus Data adds a distributed architecture for PostgreSQL on Azure and expands the cloud platform's array of open source software.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN certified for AWS, Google, Microsoft

  Silver Peak's Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN is certified for AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Companies can deploy the product from the cloud providers' marketplaces.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Broadcom execs: Here's how the CA acquisition works

  Broadcom explains why its surprising acquisition of CA Technologies can work, citing complementary portfolios and the long-term viability of mainframe software.

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Google Cloud certifications fuel race for cloud talent

  Google has expanded its cloud certification program to include tests for developers, security, networking and G Suite.

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  GitHub Enterprise upgrade eases team development

  Enhancements to GitHub Enterprise help enterprise developers schedule, automate and administrate tasks, as the company adjusts course under Microsoft's watch.

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  XenData introduces magnetic tape backup migration service

  XenData now offers a service to move magnetic tape backup data to either a newer tape format or to cloud, allowing customers with old tapes to get rid of legacy systems.

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins

  New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products.