For the first time IDC expanded its definition of HCI systems, adding a “new breed” called disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure and saying that NetApp HCI is an example of this.

The vendor also introduced a new high-end, mission-critical storage platform called Primera. It comes with a 100% availability guaranteed.

Cloudian is expanding S3-based object storage for VMware shops that want to offer services for backup, archiving, disaster recovery, big data, containers, and software development.

The vendor also announced it’s moving into consumption-based pricing to further make on-premises infrastructure more cloud like.

It uses the vendor’s Open5G Platform edge software stack and enables network operators and application providers to plug into the platform and bring applications and services.

An analyst noted that the deal will help Google Cloud better compete against Microsoft's BI Power platform.

The partnership takes advantage of Oracle’s embedded enterprise focus with the larger scale of Microsoft’s Azure platform.

The GCP integration will allow Snowflake customers to seamlessly store data in Google's public cloud while also tapping into their own analytics warehouse.

CEO Antonio Neri blamed declining revenue on trade tensions, longer than expected sales cycles with some customers, and “execution issues,” specifically with Aruba product sales.

The data management company plans to release the cloud-native system this year with a monitoring and management tool and Apache Cassandra as-a-service.

The platform also allows users to access Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud infrastructure.

“We expect more people to build frameworks on top of Kubernetes,” said Janet Kuo, a software engineer at Google and co-chair of the KubeCon event.

Cloudability’s platform leverages data science, machine learning (ML), and automation to sort through cloud spending programs. This allows customers to have a simplified view of their usage and spending

This puts the equipment vendor in competition with traditional database vendors including IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — some of which also have autonomous database products.

The chipmaker discussed several open source efforts at its annual Open Source Technology Summit. And if you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of it, it’s because for the past

The vendors’ relationship was born in the cloud, and now they are moving in together into on-premises data centers.

The monitoring technology, which Mellanox deemed What Just Happened, helps enterprises identify anomalies in the data plane.

From monitoring microservices to managing large volumes of data for modern applications to running analytical workloads, these companies are infusing AI and data into their offerings.

It also announced a product that integrates secondary storage with the Nutanix platform providing a single management console for primary and secondary storage operations.

“We are dancing again. You have seen our young management in development. I hope in the next six years in moving to the cloud that only a few customers

The goal of the acquisition and the new product capabilities “is to address the problem of mass data fragmentation,” said Cohesity’s Raj Dutt.

The OpenShift 4 and RHEL 8 launches come as the company is about to be gobbled up by IBM

Also, The Rook cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes hit its 1.0 release, and a Kublr survey found that attendees at container-focused events really like containers.

The tech giant announced several new Azure cloud services ahead of its annual Build developers’ conference next week.