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• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Analysts anticipate fresh wave of enterprise technology M&A

  CI/CD vendor Harness acquired Armory, reports surfaced of private equity takeover talks for PagerDuty, and that's just the start of more M&A to come, industry experts predict.

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Cloud and observability tools help global first responders

  How an NGO 'Uber for ambulances' service used observability tools from New Relic to improve AWS-based app performance under life-and-death circumstances.

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Microsoft starts year with a subdued January Patch Tuesday

  For the second month in a row, Microsoft had no zero-days and relatively few vulnerabilities for administrators to address.

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  HPE to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion

  HPE plans to use Juniper's hardware and software to make networking a 'core business and architecture foundation' for HPE's GreenLake hybrid cloud and AI platform.

• January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

  Where AI and quantum computing meet

  Quantum computing may be years away from practical enterprise applications, but it's getting closer. We talked with IBM's quantum adoption leader to see where we're at right now.

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• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Cisco Security Cloud adds Isovalent for multi-cloud networks

  The commercial backer of open source networking and security projects Cilium and Tetragon comes under Cisco's control for cloud-native network security.

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  UltiHash compresses, deduplicates data on a binary level

  In this Q&A, the CEO of UltiHash talks about the continuous compression and deduplication it aims to provide primary storage while reducing storage needs.

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Server-side Wasm to-do list lengthens for 2024

  Server-side WebAssembly hype peaked in late 2022, but a year later, its path to general availability for key features remains long and cloud portability alternatives are emerging.

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  DevSecOps pros prep for GenAI upheavals in 2024

  Generative AI models have been a hot topic of discussion in 2023, but their real-world impact on each of the major IT disciplines is just beginning.

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  Lenovo's new ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile offerings aimed at AI

  Lenovo has added the latest generation of Intel CPUs to new ThinkSystem servers and ThinkAgile HCI appliances to better address enterprise AI needs.

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  Solix eyes data lakes as it builds out archive platform

  Solix Technologies' latest Common Data Platform update focuses on archiving, sorting and storing customer data for data lake creation and, ultimately, AI.

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  When FinOps met devx at Capital One

  Capital One has kept cloud costs flat as its infrastructure grows, and now looks to share lessons learned -- including the subtle art of devx -- through the FinOps Foundation.

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  SUSE Rancher Kubernetes regroups amid platform trend

  It's been a year of seismic shifts for SUSE's Rancher Kubernetes management products as market buzz shifts to platform engineering, forcing changes in strategy heading into 2024.

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  AI to drive storage media demand in 2024

  HDD and NAND-based storage media makers saw revenue and sales drop this year, but experts expect this to turn around in 2024, thanks in part to the demand for AI.

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Microsoft delivers light December Patch Tuesday for admins

  IT operations teams should prioritize deploying the Windows cumulative update to dispatch a critical MSHTML bug affecting Microsoft Outlook.

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  IBM engineers hatch Linux Foundation HashiCorp Vault fork

  IBM engineers working on Open Horizon within the Linux Foundation begin a Vault fork as challenges continue for HashiCorp, which also addressed Terraform Cloud pricing angst.

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Peak:AIO CEO: Less is more to get the most out of AI storage

  In this Q&A, Peak:AIO founder and CEO Mark Klarzynski explains why AI storage needs should be designed around GPU efficiency, not massive data lakes.

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Docker adds shift-left tests in AtomicJar Testcontainers buy

  Docker stressed its commitment to maintaining the Testcontainers open source project at a time when shift-left testing has become a mainstream priority for enterprise developers.

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  Generative AI fuels demand for hybrid cloud storage in 2024

  Object storage remains an important component of generative AI creation and training, driving enterprise IT teams to consider hybrid cloud storage for lower costs and more options.

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  Dell PowerScale updates, new partnerships point to AI stack

  Dell eyes AI with updates to PowerScale, an expanded partnership with AMD and a new partnership with AI lab Imbue. Its strategy is to bring a full AI stack on premises.

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  AMD Instinct MI300 AI accelerator takes aim at Nvidia GPUs

  Data center-grade GPUs and accelerators for enterprise customers and cloud vendors are the new battleground for AI hardware. AMD and Google advance the race with new chips.

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Google Gemini, AWS GenAI tools face uphill battle for devs

  Google's Gemini model claims performance advantages over GPT-4, while AWS touts foundational model choice, but Microsoft still has the advantage in developer tools, IT pros say.

• December 05, 2023 05 Dec'23

  IBM quantum computers make sizable leap

  The largest enterprises now invest in quantum computing strategies -- but it's still a long way off for the typical business. IBM's Condor and Heron QPUs accelerate its arrival.

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  Lack of new data storage hardware in 2023 unsurprising

  While software development and partner integrations sped up in 2023, data storage hardware innovation appeared to slow down. Industry experts weigh in on why.

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Amazon S3 storage picks up speed at re:Invent 2023

  The release of Amazon S3 Express One Zone kicked off AWS re:Invent 2023, which featured new storage products that added capabilities to the public cloud's file and object storage.

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Broadcom completes VMware acquisition, promises investment

  Broadcom plans to invest in VMware products that enable enterprises to build and modernize their private and hybrid cloud environments, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said.

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Geek gift guide 2023: Security first, at home and on the go

  The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ended in 2023, but the threat of cyberattacks grew. Geeks had security on their minds, along with home comforts and travel gear.

• November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

  DNA storage to tackle massive archives

  DNA storage could provide dense, flexible, more sustainable form factors for archival use cases. One company plans on commercializing its offering by 2026.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Nashville Electric selects Pure Storage to provide power

  A Nashville-based power company decided to migrate off an outdated, ill-fitting Dell storage system to something more modern and more reasonable.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  IT pros wary as Microsoft Copilot juggernaut gains steam

  Microsoft is now 'The Copilot company,' along with GitHub. But concerns linger about the accuracy of AI-generated results, code lineage and long-term job security.

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Logistics firm taps Netflix Conductor service to manage AI

  SPI Logistics looks to a microservices orchestration service provider founded by the creators of Netflix Conductor as it prepares to weave AI into developer workflows.

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Veteran platform engineers share lessons learned, wish lists

  Platform engineering is the new DevOps, but few companies have reached maturity; reps from early adopter orgs shared tips, caveats and a call to action at KubeCon.

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  IXsystems flagship array goes all-NVMe flash

  The F-Series storage array family is now all-NVMe, bringing new levels of performance and density to IXsystems flagship array as it adds a new option in the NAS storage market.

• November 14, 2023 14 Nov'23

  Microsoft halts 3 zero-days on November Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft addresses 67 vulnerabilities, including six critical, and shuts down four bugs in the Exchange Server email platform this month.

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Generative AI brings changes to cloud-native platforms

  Generative AI took over tech in 2023, and cloud-native platforms are no exception. The need to support LLMs is already affecting CNCF projects, including Kubernetes.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  DDN Infinia expands storage around HPC, AI

  DDN has created a new software-defined object storage product, Infinia, for AI and HPC secondary storage. The tech can also be applied to some enterprise storage use cases.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts

  Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress

  Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  New IBM Storage Scale focuses on AI, HPC

  Adding to the growing list of storage for AI, IBM Storage Scale System 6000 brings the vendor's parallel file system as well as nearly a ronnabyte of capacity to a single cluster.

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform

  As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  Western Digital to split flash, HDD business units in two

  Western Digital will spin off its flash storage business into a separate company by the second half of 2024, leaving hard drives under the WD banner.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  Dell-Red Hat tackle DIY OpenShift deployments with appliance

  Expanding its partnership with Red Hat, Dell is now offering OpenShift as a validated appliance for on-premises container deployment and management.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows

  Large enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  Rancher founders' new venture recasts Kubernetes management

  While Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Generative AI gets AIOps closer to ultimate goal

  BigPanda's generative AI-driven root cause analysis keeps it at crux of IHG's AIOps. Glean's natural language processing and suggestions will free up time for Cruise devx team.

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  Nyriad aims to simplify storage-as-a-service pricing

  Nyriad's UltraIO-as-a-Service enters the market, seeking to simplify purchasing and on-premises deployment. However, it's not a fit for every industry.

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  NetApp adds new flash hardware, debuts VMware DR service

  The enterprise storage vendor continues its hybrid cloud portfolio push with capacity flash for the ASA hardware family and bolts a VMware DR service to its BlueXP console.

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Dell PowerMaxOS 10.1 targets operational, energy efficiency

  The latest Dell PowerMaxOS update brings greater data reduction and power usage monitoring to its top-of-the-line storage array. The update also keyed in on cyber-resilience.

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed

  Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  StorPool adds fast erasure coding to block storage

  Latest release of StorPool Storage enables high-performance data protection for block storage using erasure coding on standard SSDs for fast recovery of demanding applications.

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  Micron first to bring 232 layers to mainstream SSDs

  The 7500, Micron's latest SSD, uses the company's 232-layer NAND technology to support a broad set of use cases at a lower price point than its high-end counterparts.

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms

  Developer platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Hitachi Vantara gives single view of storage

  To reduce complexity, Hitachi Vantara released a storage platform aimed at unifying data management, but it will need to find ways to differentiate its offering, says one analyst.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL

  HashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Terraform Registry TOS change stokes open source ire

  Community members allege that HashiCorp quietly changed the terms of service for its Terraform Registry in order to complicate efforts to fork the code.

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  Microsoft tackles three zero-days for October Patch Tuesday

  The company releases fixes for several products affected by the HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" vulnerability to help curb widespread Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks.

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  Future of storage lies in collaboration, unified management

  Storage vendors throughout 2023 bet big on unified management and collaboration tools as what the market will want and what will help them stand out among the enterprise C-suite.

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  Google's DORA DevOps report warns against metrics misuse

  This year's DORA DevOps report echoes the experiences of one organization that has applied them in practice: DORA metrics can be powerful but aren't always an exact science.

• October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23

  Dell PowerFlex hits 4.5, Apex Block Storage hits Azure

  Dell's software-defined storage offering, PowerFlex, gets an update that provides better infrastructure monitoring, more file services and a new Apex Block Storage option.

• October 05, 2023 05 Oct'23

  Docker enters GenAI development fray with new tools

  Docker jumps aboard the generative AI bandwagon with a pre-built set of tools to jump-start app development using LLMs and a Docker AI productivity tool.

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  Docker Scout GA leads 'local plus cloud' push

  Docker Scout replaces open source Docker Scan with an event-driven vulnerability management system in a bid to boost the vendor's value beyond developers' local laptops.

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  Edge AI server market grows

  Rapid data growth and the need to process it at the edge is expanding opportunities in the server market, with new entries from Unigen and Lenovo.

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  What a Western Digital-Kioxia merger might mean for NAND

  Speculation that Kioxia and Western Digital could combine their NAND businesses is making rounds again. Analysts consider what it may mean for the flash memory market.

• September 27, 2023 27 Sep'23

  Now a graduated CNCF project, Istio contests complexity rep

  Boasting a broader contributor base, including Microsoft, and with service mesh on the verge of going fully mainstream, Istio advocates look to shake the project's early image.

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Dell Apex brings cloud Azure HCI to ground

  Dell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure combines Dell hardware with Microsoft Azure software, a move that adds to Dell's hybrid cloud offerings.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts

  CI/CD pipeline vendor Harness faces two challenges as it launches Gitness: a market dominated by GitHub and GitLab as well as concerns about vendor-led open source projects.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  OpenZFS interest grows alongside rise of unstructured data

  With the explosion of unstructured data, lower-cost file systems such as OpenZFS are gaining more attention as they continue to gain support from vendors.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  IT pros react to blockbuster $28B Cisco-Splunk deal

  Cisco goes through with its long-rumored acquisition of Splunk for security and observability. But the two aren't necessarily a perfect fit, according to some industry observers.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Komprise offers insight into storage costs across clouds

  Storage Insights for the Komprise Data Management platform enables users to define metrics for storage consumption across clouds and vendors for cost management and migration.

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Linux Foundation ups ante on HashiCorp, hosts Terraform fork

  All eyes are on HashiCorp's response now that a community-driven fork of its Terraform infrastructure as code tool has been officially relaunched as a Linux Foundation project.

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  Oracle databases in OCI now run on Microsoft Azure

  A new partnership between two enterprise technology giants adds Oracle's hardware and software for Microsoft Azure customers, as former rivals unite to compete against AWS.

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  Infinidat offers all-flash within a hybrid array

  Infinidat places a virtual all-flash array in its hybrid storage system while doubling the capacity of InfiniBox SSA and carving it up for easier consumption.

• September 18, 2023 18 Sep'23

  Scality CEO on ESG and storage as a solved problem

  Scality's CEO discusses the company's ESG efforts, ESG in IT, object storage's role in primary storage and AI while seeing the problems of storage have mostly been solved.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Toyota outage shows not all backup failures are ransomware

  An IT error for Toyota Motor Corporation knocked out production for a day, but the auto giant was quick to note the issue was not due to a cyberattack.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform

  About a year after acquiring ReleaseIQ, CloudBees prepares the fruits of its integration for launch and adds long-awaited scale-out to its commercial version of Jenkins.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Generative AI emerges for DevSecOps, with some qualms

  New and developing tools use natural language processing to assist DevSecOps workflows, but concerns linger among developers about security risks as well.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  TD Securities chooses Dell PowerMax to grow with it

  Looking at high-end block storage systems for high transactional needs, a Canadian wholesale bank decided to tap Dell PowerMax as an investment for current and future business.

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  Meet MLSecOps: Industry calls for new measures to secure AI

  Open source security, already in the software supply chain spotlight, must expand to include AI models, according to the OpenSSF and DevSecOps vendor JFrog.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Microsoft solves two zero-days for September Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft addresses 62 vulnerabilities this month, including a Microsoft Word flaw and a Windows bug that have both been exploited in the wild.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Ctera Vault locks up critical data with WORM tech

  File gateway vendors are looking to differentiate themselves in the market, with Ctera eyeing regulated industries by protecting data with a suite of cybersecurity features.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Cisco Full-Stack Observability draws on channel clout

  Cisco's latest tie-in between app security and observability doesn't break new ground, but the vendor can use its network security cachet and partners to woo enterprise buyers.

• September 08, 2023 08 Sep'23

  150 TB IBM tapes hit the market

  IBM's new enterprise tape drive brings 50 TB of native capacity and 150 TB compressed for archiving large amounts of data and is a sign of investment in an old storage medium.

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Server-side WebAssembly takes shape, but faces challenges

  Server-side Wasm's release next quarter will provide a cleaner way to connect apps, followed by further improvements in early 2024. Will it be enough to convince skeptics?

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  Panasas taps Seagate's Ken Claffey as new CEO

  In this Q&A, the new Panasas CEO talks about the company's direction, how it is branching out and how generative AI will drive adoption of parallel file systems.

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  StorCentric winds down, Nexsan stands out

  StorCentric's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing pushed the storage conglomerate and the companies it acquired into limbo. Now one of those companies might find new footing.

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Google AI plans could spur low-code/no-code faceoff with AWS

  Google's generative AI products play catch-up with Copilot and others, but the upcoming addition of Duet AI to AppSheet might fill a market gap as AWS scraps Honeycode.

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  NetApp cloud storage evolving for stateful K8s, AI

  Stateful Kubernetes storage, faster storage for AI data ingestion and more are all important features NetApp seeks to support for first-party cloud storage among the hyperscalers.

• August 29, 2023 29 Aug'23

  VMware Explore 2023 news and conference coverage

  This year’s VMware Explore conference ran from Aug. 21 to 24. Read the latest news and announcements about and from the event, including the Best of VMware Explore Awards.

• August 25, 2023 25 Aug'23

  OpenTF begins HashiCorp Terraform fork, pledges donation

  The vendor-led group says it wants to donate a fork based on the latest open source version of the infrastructure as code tool to a foundation, ideally the Linux Foundation or CNCF.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Google Cloud adds storage capabilities to support AI, ML

  The latest additions to Google Cloud's storage portfolio will focus on bringing object storage into the file-centric workloads of AI and ML alongside a Google-run NetApp service.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  VMware, Cisco prep generative AI for SecOps

  Generative AI has the potential to go beyond identifying anomalies in known data to create new information, such as incident summaries or security policies -- as well as new risks.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  SSD, flash memory advances to see slow walk to market

  New SSDs and CXL memory modules were on display at the 2023 Flash Memory Summit, but it might take market adjustments, new infrastructure and time to reap the benefits.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware revamps cloud software for edge management

  VMware's new Edge Cloud Orchestrator, formerly VMware SASE Orchestrator, manages VMware's edge compute and SD-WAN systems. Carmaker Audi plans to use the product in its factories.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close

  VMware Tanzu incorporates Aria AIOps and FinOps products as a $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom looms, putting the product line's future in question.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware remakes NSX for companies using multiple clouds

  VMware designed NSX+ to simplify multi-cloud networking for customers. The update will eventually replace NSX and the more advanced NSX-T within VMware Cloud.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware vSAN Max disaggregates storage for hybrid cloud

  Early HCI vendor VMware separates storage from compute in its new vSAN offering, targeting enterprise hybrid clouds and seeking to avoid the compute sticker shock.

• August 17, 2023 17 Aug'23

  Vendor-led group vows to fork HashiCorp Terraform

  HashiCorp Terraform is a flashpoint of contention in the wake of the vendor's move to a Business Source License, including allegations that it ignored open source contributions.

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  Wasabi Technologies, IBM modernize historic Fenway Park

  When Fenway Sports Group migrated to the Google Cloud Platform in 2020, it turned to Wasabi and IBM to help usher in a hybrid cloud model.

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  PeerIQ peers into NAS software across vendors, clouds

  NAS storage analytics can be viewed in a single place with Peer Software's PeerIQ, bringing different vendors and on-premises and cloud storage analytics together.

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  Confusion mounts amid HashiCorp open source change

  Ripple effects from HashiCorp's switch to BSL spread through the industry, raising questions among enterprise users and trepidation about the future of corporate open source.