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. Alation 2021.1 hits general availability. Hammerspace partners with Supermicro on Kubernetes. DDN has record-breaking 2020. Supermicro announces multi-node A100 systems. Kaseya acquires RocketCyber. Arcserve and StorageCraft merge. CloudPhysics acquired by HPE. IGEL announces integration with Amazon WorkSpaces. Chenbro unveils its open-bay product line. Commvault 11.22 released.
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. Alation 2021.1 hits general availability. Hammerspace partners with Supermicro on Kubernetes. DDN has record-breaking 2020. Supermicro announces multi-node A100 systems. Kaseya acquires RocketCyber. Arcserve and StorageCraft merge. CloudPhysics acquired by HPE. IGEL announces integration with Amazon WorkSpaces. Chenbro unveils its open-bay product line. Commvault 11.22 released.
Alation 2021.1 Hits GA
Alation, the data intelligence company, announced the release and general availability of Alation 2021.1. Version 2021.1 includes the following benefits:
- Accelerated time to insight. A new Open Connect Framework software development kit (SDK) enables third parties, including customers and partners, to build connectors to niche RDBMS and BI data sources. Through containerization, upgrades to connectors can now be managed without disruption to the data catalog. Now, users can query new types of data sources such as NoSQL and application sources, directly through Alation’s intelligent SQL editor, Compose, decreasing the time it takes to discover and generate insights from data.
- Increased search relevancy. Data domains increase search relevancy by allowing users to narrow their searches based on how data is grouped logically by the organization, such as business unit or geography. The platform’s upgraded user provisioning provides immediate access to role-specific experiences with a one-time mapping of enterprise directory groups and expedites onboarding.
- New data governance capabilities. New impact analysis reports provide an immediate view into the downstream impact of data changes and help uncover the root cause of issues based on the quality or trustworthiness of upstream data sources. A new profiling integration with Compose also allows users to identify and correct data quality issues as data is consumed.
Hammerspace Partners With Supermicro On Kubernetes
Hammerspace announced a partnership with Supermicro to bring its software onto the latter’s hardware. This marks Hammerspace’s first hardware partner. Together, the two companies will help customers build hybrid cloud solutions for Kubernetes.
DDN Has Record-Breaking 2020
Like many technology companies, DDN did very well in 2020. Its annual revenue was about $400 million and it reported its highest ever profitability. 2020 was the fifth consecutive year of customer expansion with the company now having over 11,000 customers worldwide.
Supermicro Announces Multi-Node A100 Systems
More Supermicro news, the company announced a 2U, two-node solution, 2114GT-DNR, for three double-wide PCIe gen4 GPUs or six single-width GPUs. The solutions support up to 64 cores and 128 PCIe gen4 lanes through an AMD EPYC 7002. The solution comes with two drawers that can be slide out for easy serviceability.
Kaseya Acquires RocketCyber
The IT and security management for MSPs company Kaseya announced that it has acquired RocketCyber. The new company will offer the following integrations:
- The integration between Kaseya VSA and RocketCyber allows organizations to rapidly deploy managed SOC across their entire infrastructure and instantly begin continuous cybersecurity monitoring.
- The integration between Kaseya BMS and RocketCyber enables BMS to become the primary ticketing interface when RocketCyber analysts detect security incidents that need to be addressed.
- The integration between Passly and RocketCyber that delivers single sign-on (SSO) access to RocketCyber and ingests user login data from Passly so that the data can be reviewed by RocketCyber analysts, who can then create incident tickets for issues that need to be addressed and remediated.
Arcserve & StorageCraft Merge
The two backup companies, Arcserve and StorageCraft, have announced that they have merged into a single company. The two companies are highly complementary and combining the two brings the best of both worlds and increases the reach y combing customers. It doesn’t appear that the newly formed company has settled on a name yet, but its newly combined portfolio will be available through its channel partners.
CloudPhysics Acquired By HPE
HPE has acquired CloudPhysics and its SaaS-based, data-driven platform. This acquisition brings real-world insights to HPE customers and partners in several IT environments. HPE hasn’t given many details about the acquisition yet but intends to do so in the future.
IGEL Announces Integration With Amazon WorkSpaces
IGEL, in its never-ending quest to be some part of every VDI, has announced that it now integrates with Amazon WorkSpaces. This is said to be an out-of-the-box integration that embeds the Amazon WorkSpaces client as part of the IGEL OS for cloud desktops, making deployments simple, secure, and cost-effective. The new IGEL OS with Amazon WorkSpaces integration will be available Monday, March 1st.
Chenbro Unveils Open-Bay Product Line
Chenbro announced the RM23800, RM23804, RM24500, and RM24504 SKUs in its open chassis line. This expands its modular line of servers and allows users to take advantage of its modular kits. Users have access to cost-effective, high-configurable units this way.
Commvault 11.22 Released
Commvault is sticking with its quarterly releases with its feature release 11.22. Benefits include:
- Simplicity through Commvault Command Center with the addition of Hedvig storage management
- Commvault Disaster Recovery added continuous replication support for VMware and expanded multi-cloud leadership with DR for AWS and Azure
- Added immutable protection to air-gapped cloud storage and enhanced protection for Microsoft Teams
