In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Trilio technology to be leveraged in Veritas For OpenStack. Canonical unveils Ubuntu Core V20. Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.0 family unveiled. Lightbits Labs announces new patents and revenue growth. Alluxio achieves [...]
This week, Veeam launched Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, which delivers native protection for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machines (VMs) most cost-effectively and securely. With this new addition, Veeam rounds out the cloud-native backup support for the leading hyper-scale public cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Now, for Enterprises to embrace a multi-cloud strategy [...]
Today VMWare, Inc. announced a refresh across its entire portfolio of on-premises and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that fall under its VMware vRealize Cloud Management banner. Along with the refresh, the company announced VMware vRealize Automation 8.3. The new enhancements are said to help users to more securely deploy and operate their hybrid [...]
AppDynamics, a Cisco company, announced what it calls the industry’s first solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks and protect applications from the inside-out, Cisco Secure Application. This new solution is built natively into the AppDynamics platform and was co-innovated with Cisco Security business. It is said to provide confident application performance through [...]
Along with the MP600 Core, Corsair has released another PCIe Gen4 SSD with the Corsair MP600 Pro. Being a Pro version, this drive comes with higher performance claims, 7GB/s read, and 6.55GB/s write for the 2TB capacity. The MP600 Pro is an M.2 2280 form factor that fits in most rigs assuming there is room [...]
Last year Samsung released its first PCIe Gen4 SSD for clients with the Samsung 980 Pro. We did a thorough review at the time. The 980 Pro dominated in the VDBench tests we put it through to be the top dog Gen4 against other newly released drives. The only problem was there was a limitation [...]
Rolled out at CES 2021, the XPG GAMMIX S70 is an M.2 SSD aimed at gamers. The drive leverages the PCIe Gen4x4 interface with promises of speeds up to 7.4GB/s read and 6.4GB/s write. Though it leverages the new interface it is backward compatible with Gen3 devices. Aside from gamers, XPG is also looking at [...]
In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NAKIVO introduces v10.2. Quantum announces new hybrid storage arrays. Backblaze 2020 drive stats are available. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 released. Eaton Power Xpert SPD released. SUSE supports Longhorn 1.1. [...]
The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the company’s newest addition to their NVMe PCIe Gen4 portfolio. Released back in December, the Rocket 4 Plus comes equipped with the new Phison PS5018-E18 controller, which was demonstrated at the CES 2021 in January, and features TLC NAND and DDR4 cache. It currently is available in capacities up [...]
Today Synology Inc. introduced three new RackStation units. These units are aimed at backup, virtualization storage, and remote work solutions. In a slightly unusual move for the company, they have also released the HAT5300 series of enterprise hard drives or Synology HDDs. These high-capacity SATA drives are specifically designed for Synology deployments. Today Synology Inc. [...]
