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• March 08, 2024 08 Mar'24

  GenAI risks, rewards arise for DevOps and platform engineers

  From chatbots that alleviate pressure on IT help desks to full-fledged LLMOps, DevOps and platform teams are at the forefront of enterprise generative AI adoption.

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  Ripple effect from Broadcom-VMware buy spreads to vSAN

  Broadcom claims changes to VMware's licensing model will offer increased flexibility, but storage competitors say it's a red flag and encourage customers to move on.

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Pure1, Evergreen expand self-service and data protection

  Pure Storage continues to transition into an as-a-service model by building out more automation and data resiliency in its Pure1 data management service and Evergreen portfolio.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  HPE GreenLake for File Storage update aimed at AI

  HPE GreenLake has utilized new CPUs and denser SSDs to bring more AI and data lake workloads to customers looking for an alternative to the public cloud.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Sumo Logic offers free data ingest for log analytics

  Data ingest is now free for new customers of Sumo Logic's SaaS log analytics product, as observability cost concerns and data volumes mount across the IT industry.

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• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Azure's new storage products keeps Microsoft competitive

  New Azure storage offerings from Microsoft or from vendor partners such as Qumulo aim to increase parity with hyperscaler rivals and draw more enterprise buyers into its cloud.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  NetApp deepens storage offerings, security for AI buyers

  New data protection and ransomware recovery features headline the latest NetApp updates. The vendor is also expanding its Nvidia partnership to ensure its offerings are AI-ready.

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  New Nvidia, GitHub AI coding assistants expand devs' options

  GitHub Copilot Enterprise and StarCoder2 LLMs, both released this week, will add to an array of AI coding assistants. But caution, especially with security, is still warranted.

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  IBM FlashSystem update focuses on ransomware detection

  IBM FlashSystem builds on the ransomware fight in primary storage by adding AI to its FlashCore Module storage media and to Storage Defender, its data protection SaaS.

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Octopus Deploy reels in Codefresh for GitOps expertise

  By joining forces in CI/CD and GitOps, the combined companies look to even the odds with bigger competitors, but this will be a daunting task, experts predict.

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Arcitecta leverages metadata to move critical data faster

  Arcitecta has found a way to increase the data transfer speed of its Mediaflux Livewire software, which can be valuable for projects that demand significant collaboration.

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Linkerd paywall prompts online debate, CNCF TOC review

  Linkerd's decision to charge for access to stable builds of its service mesh code sparks objections and debate about open source governance, along with an official CNCF response.

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  New Hammerspace capability sets up enterprise AI

  The latest update to Hammerspace's software-defined storage system removes metadata from data path, enabling HPC to use data from any storage source without specialized hardware.

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Dell PowerScale adds new all-flash nodes, with eyes on AI

  Dell has added the latest-generation Intel CPUs, PCIe 5.0 storage and DDR5 RAM to PowerScale, doubling the performance and making it a more attractive fit for AI.

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Some Linkerd service mesh users will soon have to pay

  Companies with more than 50 employees using Linkerd service mesh in production must pay Buoyant for stable releases starting in May. Open source users and analysts weigh in.

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Nasuni drifts cloud storage platform into data management

  Cloud storage and edge caching vendor Nasuni is adding new data observability capabilities to its platform with Nasuni IQ, now available to all Nasuni customers.

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  The promise of CXL still hangs in the balance

  With AI pushing at the limits of hyperscaler environments, CXL offers a way to alleviate the memory problem. But it still requires a killer app if it's going to gain ground.

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Declining revenues lead to 4,000 job cuts at Cisco

  A 12% drop in networking revenue contributed to the company's overall revenue decline and its decision to cut 5% of its workforce.

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Dapr brings microservices principles to platform engineering

  With microservices now mainstream -- and past the trough of disillusionment -- a framework developed for them appeals to platform engineers with shared services consistency.

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  February Patch Tuesday corrects two Windows zero-days

  Administrators should focus on quickly deploying a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and exercising caution when applying an Exchange Server 2019 cumulative update.

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  New media could bring fresh competition to tape archive market

  Tape has had the archive media market cornered for years, but newcomers including those working in DNA and glass could change that just as demand is set to increase.

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Integration of AI, legacy IT opens partner opportunities

  Core in-house applications running on client-server systems and mainframes are candidates for a generative AI update, according to IT service provider executives.

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  Observe ties in Snowflake to slash observability costs

  The emerging competitor to Dynatrace, Datadog and Splunk shuns AIOps, and its approach to data management and price tag intrigued one experienced customer.

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  HPE's GreenLake for Block Storage goes GA

  The third version of HPE block storage on the Alletra MP brings higher capacity and performance as well as an easier way for customers to scale out as needs change.

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  School district shares experience moving to HPE GreenLake

  A California school district placed its server and storage infrastructure in the hands of HPE GreenLake. Its IT director shares the roadblocks he experienced and the benefits.

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Latest Cisco products show measured approach to AI

  Cisco has launched a SaaS product for applying policy controls to AI model-bound data and an Nvidia partnership to bolster Cisco UCS servers for AI at the edge and data centers.

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Spectra Logic brings Glacier on premises for NetApp

  NetApp StorageGrid customers can backup data in the cloud or on premises thanks to a new integration with Spectra Logic, a development one analyst described as advantageous.

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  GitOps vendor's close echoes wider funding, open-core woes

  Score one for IT orgs that rely solely on upstream code, as Flux CD sails on. But Weaveworks' demise points to larger issues for vendor sustainability, especially in open source.

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  TD Bank plans AIOps consolidation on Dynatrace SaaS

  The dream of zero-touch autoremediation remains alive for the bank as it prepares to go all in on Dynatrace SaaS for observability-driven IT automation.

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Astera Labs uses CXL to accelerate AI, expand memory

  Astera Labs is using the CXL interface in its now longer Smart Cable Module to spread out energy consumption while enabling GPU clusters to meet growing AI demands.

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Dynatrace adds price tier, data pipeline amid cost crunch

  Dynatrace looks to accommodate observability data growth more affordably, but enterprise IT pros have many emerging alternatives to tackle this growing problem.

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Panzura CEO: Avoid tech that's shiny instead of performant

  Dan Waldschmidt takes over as Panzura CEO after a year of refinement, aiming for a deliberate path to develop and introduce GenAI capabilities into its data management platform.

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Juniper adds data center networks to Mist AI

  Juniper's Mist AI update will include using the Marvis virtual network assistant to obtain information on data center cabling, configurations and connectivity issues.

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Credit Karma preps 'Zero-touch' Argo Rollouts

  The Intuit subsidiary is in the process of moving to a homegrown event-driven progressive delivery platform and has already contributed some related code upstream.

• January 25, 2024 25 Jan'24

  Panzura board appoints Waldschmidt as CEO

  Dan Waldschmidt replaces Jill Stelfox at the SaaS storage vendor. Stelfox led the company since 2020 and says she's 'actively choosing to be silent right now.'

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Nexsan adds data protection to NV6000 unified storage

  Nexsan's new unified array, the NV6000, adds immutable snapshots that create an 'unbreakable' backup when combined with the vendor's Assureon backup appliance.

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Docker Build Cloud claims speed boost for dev workflows

  Docker ships a managed service that pushes container image builds to AWS and adds shared caches to customers' existing dev tools.

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Curio AI deal adds ML capabilities to Wasabi cloud storage

  Wasabi Technologies adds metadata technology by Curio AI in a new acquisition from Gray Meta Inc., the first addition to Wasabi's object storage since opening its doors.

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Seagate ships HAMR tech in new HDDs

  Seagate's Mozaic 3+ brings HAMR-based HDDs to market with 3 TB platters, potentially helping to breathe new life into the legacy storage technology.

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  Hammerspace's global file system now includes tape

  With the inclusion of magnetic tape storage, Hammerspace now allows customers to access archives quickly, assuming the tapes are S3 compatible.

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  Equinix Fabric adds multi-cloud routing

  Equinix markets its Fabric Cloud Router as a monthly subscription service that organizations can access and configure quickly. It includes an SLA for 99.999% uptime.

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Log management discipline saves ERP company $3M

  IT ops pros at a SaaS provider made a set of simple changes to log management over the last two years and reaped substantial cost benefits.

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Ex-Datadog, AWS exec steers Elastic's observability strategy

  Elastic's observability GM, hired away from Datadog in October, looks to tie the company's search analytics prowess in with generative AI and OpenTelemetry trends.

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  On-premises data storage could gain ground in 2024

  Given the rising costs of cloud, companies are reevaluating the benefits of storing their data on premises, a trend that's expected to continue in 2024.

• 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.

• 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.