The PX-Enterprise 1.6 updates take into account the distributed storage nature of modern applications running across different clouds and container environments.

The product uses a Kubernetes orchestration framework. It supports on-premises storage devices and cloud storage from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Digital Ocean, Wasabi, and Scality’s software-defined storage platform Ring.

When asked about Kurian, who heads the company’s cloud business, Co-CEO Mark Hurd said “we expect him back.” But Hurd refused to say when that will happen.

The hyperconverged infrastructure system is designed for edge deployments. It includes automated virtualization, compute, storage, and power management resources, along with built-in redundancy.

The company claims its cloud storage costs less than one-fifth the price of Amazon S3 and is more than six times as fast.

Datrium says its software simplifies hybrid cloud compared to traditional storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure.

The new Lenovo-branded products will combine NetApp’s all-flash data management and storage software with Lenovo’s servers.

Deep learning requires software tools to make sense of the data. To that end Cisco is working with software providers and other technology companies to validate machine learning tools

Its pièce de résistance is to use software-defined networking to take resources from clouds and on-premises data centers and make it look like it’s a single data center, all

The specifications are for attribute-based encryption that describes how to secure personal data, combining access control with data encryption.

The company's open source partner program will divert revenue to organizations or individuals that allow blockchain-based encrypted storage on personal devices.

Vodafone Idea becomes the largest mobile operator in India; CenturyLink and VMware launch an IT partner program; AWS released its relational database service on VMware.

At VMworld and at home this week, all four of the top hyperconverged infrastructure vendors made news with their HCI platforms and partnerships.

This brings its total to $173 million and marks a “watershed moment in storage,” says CMO Jon Toor.

The project is housed in the Linux Foundation and is a standardized way for managing the flow of metadata between different big data technologies and vendor platforms.

Updates to the hybrid cloud platform include deeper integration with NSX networking and security capabilities and a high-capacity storage option via integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

The company’s open source blockchain-based security platform is working with enterprises to secure their IoT data and devices.

The container orchestration platform lets users tap into existing workflows and use the same tools for an application management layer overseeing compute and storage.

The cloud service gives companies visibility and mobility across all of their secondary data and applications from a single dashboard. It also uses machine learning and analytics to power

Composable infrastructure — Dell EMC calls it “kinetic infrastructure” — treats networking, storage, and compute as fluid resource pools that can be composed and recomposed on the fly.

Oracle open sources protocol for machine learning models; IEEE publishes new fog computing standards; and Cohesity achieves AWS storage competency.

Respondents to IHS Markit’s survey indicated they expect a 1.5x increase in the average number of physical servers in their data centers by 2019.

Oracle debuts another autonomous database cloud service; Facebook open sources its transport layer security library; and AWS rolls out serverless option for Amazon Aurora.

During the Black Hat Keynote, Google’s Parisa Tabriz, who manages the Project Zero bug hunting team, urged tech companies to build coalitions to solve complex security problems.