The ONTAP changes are highly significant and include the addition of both continuous data availability and S3 object services.
The security enhancements include end-to-end AES data encryption, TLS support, an X.509 digital certificate and new Kubernetes support.
The 2.5 release of the Rancher platform also adds the ability to deliver GitOps capabilities at scale, improved Amazon EKS cluster management, and a broader version of the government version of their platform.
The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself
Dell Technologies’ VMworld announcements include enhancements to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, tighter integration between VMware Cloud Director and Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, new support for VMware Tanzu, and a series of storage and data protection announcements.
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4.0 release makes significant enhances to Hitachi UCP Advisor, and adds important new SAP and VMware certifications.
Pure will use Portworx’s cloud native capabilities as a layer on top of their own solutions, as many joint customers have been using them, but is also using Portworx and its executive team as the foundation of a new Cloud Native Business Unit.
Kubernetes S3 Operator provides full Kubernetes portability which meets the needs of both DevOps and production workloads, while cutting costs up to 60%.
Pure introduces the first capacity-optimized all-QLC all-Flash storage array, and dense 24.7TB and 49TB QLC DirectFlash modules.
WekaIO’s high performance file system has primarily sold to universities and very large enterprises with AI initiatives, but they see the new plug-in as helping address AI initiatives more broadly in the Fortune 2000.
Their free FreeNAS product has been consolidated within the TrueNAS portfolio as the entry level (and still free) TrueNAS Core, which consolidates two platforms into one and accelerates R&D accordingly.
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
IMT, which has a major presence in the media and entertainment industry, offers SoDA to move an unlimited amount of data at a fixed monthly rate, and will sell it entirely through channel partners.
Given that partners have their hands full with the COVID-19 situation, NetApp wanted to limit the change they have to deal with now, but major changes are coming to simplify and expand the program, while adding new investment and better differentiating partners.
Panzura is announcing the granting of a new patent today which is being leveraged to support Work From Home environments, and to expand Panzura’s customer base downmarket from its core of larger enterprises.
The new Third Generation of Unity offerings has two models, with a strengthened portfolio of features around them.
The new solution couples distributed file system vendor WekaIO with the Hitachi Content Platform for object storage, but the Content Platform is also getting a refresh in its own right.
The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.
