This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest updates QoreStor and SharePlex. KIOXIA expands 3D flash production. GIGABYTE releases budget-oriented motherboards for AMD. OWC Announces Envoy Pro Elektron.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest updates QoreStor and SharePlex. KIOXIA expands 3D flash production. GIGABYTE releases budget-oriented motherboards for AMD. OWC Announces Envoy Pro Elektron.
Index Engines Release Updates To CyberSense Software
Index Engines announced enhancements to its ransomware detection and recovery software, CyberSense (CyberSense is integrated with the Dell EMC Cyber Recovery solution and resold by IBM Resiliency Services and Global System Integrators). New enhancements include:
- Increased data throughput for the analysis of backup images, including virtual machine backups. The enhancements include increased parallelism to fully utilize the processing power of the CyberSense server including the ability to quickly determine if file within a backup was already analyzed in a previous backup, allowing it to be skipped over for analysis.
- New database workloads for CyberSense analytics and integrity validation. These include the SAP HANA database and the Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), also known as JET Blue which is a core component of core of Microsoft Exchange Server and Active Directory. (DB2, SharePoint, MS-SQL, Oracle also supported)
- New option that aggregates CyberSense statistics from clients into a central cloud repository.This repository does not contain any client data only anonymous statistics from CyberSense scans. The statistics resulting from the CyberSense scan will be analyzed by the latest version of the CyberSense machine learning model for improved results.
DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available In Azure Marketplace
DH2i announced the availability of DxOdyssey for IoT in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DxOdyssey for IoT is an edge-optimized SDP solution that is purpose-built for IoT networking. Now DH2i customers can take advantage of the benefits of Azure as well as Azure users having access to DxOdyssey for IoT.
Catalogic Expands Coverage To Kubernetes & Cloud
Catalogic Software announced that it was taking its enterprise data protection and expanding it to Kubernetes and cloud native applications. The company has also added a direct offload to cloud from storage arrays to the Catalogic ECX copy data management (CDM) solution.
WekaIO Announces Cloud-Native, Unified Storage Solutions
WekaIO announced a new cloud-native storage solution that is built off of WekaFS. Instead of files, this go round the company is working with object storage, developing reference architecture with the heavy hitters: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudian, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Scality, and others in Weka’s Technology Alliance Program. The company states that is it able to deliver cost-efficient, cloud-native data storage solutions at any scale. Customer benefits include:
- Faster actionable business intelligence from a single high-performance storage solution
- Cost-efficiency with the ability to manage, scale, and share data sets
- Operational agility eliminating storage silos across edge, core, and cloud
- Enterprise robustness and secure data governance
AppDynamics Releases New Capabilities
AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, announced the general availability of new capabilities that are aimed at helping IT teams build cloud native applications with confidence by connecting hybrid cloud application performance to business performance in real-time. The company states that these capabilities solve the visibility gap between traditional infrastructure and cloud environments. The new capabilities include:
- Full Stack Observability Platform: A new data platform designed to increase visibility and seamlessly ingest data from multiple sources including AppDynamics agent-based data, open-source tools and agent-less services and correlate the data across domains.
- Cloud Data Collector: An extensible architecture for capturing and automating data collection and correlating cloud services with application code, user experience and business impact to provide full stack, context rich observability. Starting with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) monitoring and observability service, Amazon CloudWatch, and then expanding to incorporate additional public and private cloud environments.
- Cloud Native Visualization: A new visualization interface that reduces the complexity of monitoring cloud-native applications with a context-sensitive, easy to understand, visual representation.
- Intelligent Application Resourcing and Cost Optimization: An integration with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer will transform operations from reactive to proactive by optimizing infrastructure resources and costs in hybrid cloud environments.
Quest Updates QoreStor & SharePlex
Quest Software announced that it was enhancing two of its main solutions, QoreStor and SharePlex, the first enhancements since the newly unified Quest Information Systems Management (ISM) business. Enhancements include:
- Version 7.0 of QoreStor takes the solution’s ability to leverage the cloud more easily and extensively than before by adding “Object Direct,” which enables customers to utilize object storage for the solution’s main data repository, providing de-duplication using native cloud storage for a more cost-effective option for secondary storage needs. With another new feature called “Archive Tier,” the solution now also allows backup data to be sent from a QoreStor instance directly to a lower cost “cold” cloud storage solution, such as AWS Glacier. Additionally, a new connection interface “Object”, enables cloud-based solutions that leverage an S3 based connection to store data to send it directly to a QoreStor instance, combined with “Object Direct” QoreStor 7.0 adds true cloud storage de-duplication for cloud native backup solutions.
- New features in SharePlex bolster the solution’s role as a safety net, supporting Oracle database availability and data resiliency to drive Oracle availability where the business needs it most. The latest version provides more flexible ways to drive value from Oracle data while reducing cost by allowing migration to Oracle Database 19c, on-prem or in the cloud, and can move Oracle data to Kafka for superior data streaming or SQL Server for cost-effective offload reporting in near real time. Version 10.0 also extends SharePlex support for Oracle Database 19c on AIX, AWS RDS, Exadata, Windows and Solaris.
KIOXIA Expands 3D Flash Production
KIOXIA Corporation announced that it will begin the construction of a new fabrication facility at Yokkaichi Plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan (Fab7). The facility will help the company expand its production of its proprietary 3D Flash memory BiCS FLASH and is expected to start in spring of 2021. KIOXIA will be continuing its partnership with WD with joint venture investments for the Fab7 facility.
GIGABYTE Releases Budget Oriented Motherboards for AMD
GIGABYTE Technologies announced two new server motherboards for dual 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7002 processors. The MZ71-CE0 and MZ71-CE1 boards are similar to the higher end boards (offers some support for PCIe Gen 4) though they are more budget oriented. The boards come with 8 DIMM slots and have PCIe Gen 4 support in the M.2 slot and one of the PCIe expansion slots. The MZ71-CE0 comes with dual 10Gb/E ports and the MZ71-CE1 has dual 1Gb/E ports.
OWC Announces Envoy Pro Elektron
OWC announced its new USB-C, bus-powered SSD, the OWC Envoy Pro Electron. Highlights include:
- Superfast for all: save, backup, and edit personal and work files with up to 1011MB/s real-world performance
- OWC Aura SSD powered: advanced NVMe technology delivers up to twice as fast performance compared to other portable SSDs
- Universally compatible: Plug and play with Thunderbolt and USB Macs or PCs produced over the last decade, current models, and well into the future, as well as with devices like the iPad Pro and Chromebooks
- Built like a tank: Crushproof, dustproof and waterproof IP67 rated
- Tiny: pocket-sized to go anywhere easily
- Bootable: start working and launch apps in seconds
- Informative: LED for at a glance confirmation of power and activity status
- Cool: heat-dissipating aircraft-grade aluminum housing for silent, throttle-free performance
- Connected: included USB-C cable with Type A adapter plugs into to any machine anywhere
OWC Envoy Pro Elektron on MacSales
