The technology is still in its infancy with only a handful of vendors shipping products. We expect to see more action in 2019.

The new converged infrastructure combines IBM’s NVMe flash storage and software with Mellanox networking on Nvidia servers. It also uses Nvidia’s AI software stack.

Adding these policy-based security capabilities to the Pivot3 Intelligence Engine enables customers to integrate data encryption and key management into the same workflow for managing applications and storage.

Etcd is the primary storage location for Kubernetes and needs to be established before Kubernetes can be run on a system.

“Nobody gets to keep a lock on cloud computing,” Wasabi CEO David Friend said. “As much as Amazon would like to, it’s going to be a multi-cloud world.”

IT professionals list Microsoft Azure as the best cloud provider in terms of cost effectiveness, having the most advanced tools, reliability, and having the best support for container environments.

The elephant in the room on both earnings calls was the VMware-AWS relationship. The latest offering — AWS branded servers running in customers’ on-premises data centers — could hurt

The deal will bring storage to Contrail’s multicloud product as well as expand Juniper’s edge computing portfolio.

Part of its database build-out includes a new blockchain managed service.

The company is building a corporate campus in Sunnyvale, California, to provide a home for its more than 1,000 employees in the Valley.

Also today HPE rolled out four new edge products as well as storage advances with machine learning built in.

NooBaa’s hybrid and multi-cloud management technology will be integrated with Red Hat’s storage offerings.

The vendor updated its cloud-native monitoring platform with new microservices capabilities and automated anomaly detection across infrastructure and applications.

The new product bundles software on top of HPE ProLiant DL rack servers for an open hybrid cloud platform.

The vendor’s resiliency also improved airport security. “With security you can’t afford any downtime,” said the director of IT and security at Charleston International Airport.

NetApp has been pitching a similar story as it pivots from a traditional storage vendor to a cloud data services company. But Pure Storage says its approach is unique.

The research firm evaluated 11 blockchain-as-a-service platforms. It looked at the different features they offered as well as their involvement in trials and pilots.

InfoSight’s predictive capabilities also move the needle closer to enabling autonomous data centers.

The Data Lakes Analytics service helps customers that need cloud-native analytics and need to turn raw data into real-time insights.

The collaboration will initially use IBM’s Blockchain Platform to improve reliability and transparency of information collected by different networks when routing international calls.

The search and AI-driven analytics company also added new integration with the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

The Ceph project is a unified distributed storage system providing applications with object, block, and file system interfaces.

What’s in a name? NetApp says its HCI is really hybrid cloud infrastructure (not hyperconverged), but it sounds more like composable.

The Netherlands-based startup provides device visibility, continuous network monitoring, and threat and anomaly detection specific to operational technology and industrial environments.