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OATS from AARP Opens Senior Planet Miami: The First Technology-Themed Community Center for Older Adults in Miami

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Monday, December 4, 2023
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MIAMI, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- National nonprofit, Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP opens a new Senior Planet center for older adults ages 50-plus in the vibrant, cultural neighborhood of Wynwood, Miami. As the area's first technology-themed community center for older adults, visitors can get help with technology and learn new skills in a spacious, modern center packed with 72 screens, featuring state-of-the-art computer equipment and Wi-Fi – all free of charge.

Key Points: 
  • The new Senior Planet center will serve as a community hub for the 50-plus population, with an emphasis on technology training in an enriching social setting.
  • MIAMI, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- National nonprofit, Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP opens a new Senior Planet center for older adults ages 50-plus in the vibrant, cultural neighborhood of Wynwood, Miami.
  • As the first senior center our firm designed in Miami, we aimed to craft a well-designed building that reflects the culture, emotions, and architecture of Miami.
  • Senior Planet is committed to providing a wide range of free, community-based classes to demystify traditionally inaccessible topics for older adults.

Backblaze Announces Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading specialized storage cloud, today announced results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading specialized storage cloud, today announced results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023.
  • “Looking ahead, our recent price increase supports continued investments in the platform and positions us for profitable growth while continuing to offer customers a compelling and cost effective storage solution.”
    Third Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights:
    B2 Cloud Storage revenue was $11.6 million, an increase of 31% YoY.
  • Third Quarter 2023 Operational Highlights:
    Annual recurring revenue (ARR) was $100.9 million, an increase of 15% YoY.
  • ET) to review its financial results.

NetApp Extends Partnership with Microsoft Empowering Customers to Achieve More Through Cloud Adoption

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
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“Through our collaboration with Microsoft, we can deliver market-leading cloud storage and cloud infrastructure operations to our customers and partners that nobody else in the industry offers,” said Ronen Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage, NetApp. “NetApp is offering a robust set of capabilities--with ANF, NetApp BlueXP Hybrid data services, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Spot. We innovate in collaboration with Microsoft Azure, offering customers unparalleled optimization to both storage and compute. We accelerate the move of the cloud of general file and enterprise workloads, and increasingly help customers with cloud native workloads, Kubernetes and AI.”

Key Points: 
  • NetApp delivers innovations to Microsoft Azure users that bring together solutions for cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files (ANF) NetApp BlueXP, and Cloud Volumes ONTAP and now CloudOps solutions from Spot by NetApp—all based on industry-leading NetApp and Microsoft technologies.
  • “NetApp is offering a robust set of capabilities--with ANF, NetApp BlueXP Hybrid data services, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Spot.
  • “Azure NetApp Files continues to deliver ever-greater innovation to our customers as a result of our long-standing and fruitful partnership with NetApp,” said Aung Oo, General Manager for Microsoft Azure Storage.
  • “Our expanded Spot by NetApp portfolio on Microsoft Azure and partnership with Microsoft provides customers with what they need to continuously automate and optimize application infrastructure in the cloud and drive the cloud operation and cost efficiency their businesses demand while delivering the digital experience customers expect.”
    Spot by NetApp Cloud Ops solutions are available from Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Azure channel partners and NetApp and Azure NetApp Files is available through the Microsoft Azure portal as a native Azure service.

Backblaze Improves Performance with Breakthrough Storage Cloud Innovation

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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The increased speeds benefit all Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers, especially those who rely on small file uploads (1MB or less) which are common in many use cases including backup and archive workflows.

Key Points: 
  • The increased speeds benefit all Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers, especially those who rely on small file uploads (1MB or less) which are common in many use cases including backup and archive workflows.
  • The new performance improvements released by Backblaze for B2 Cloud Storage furthers our mission to provide radical resilience to our joint customers,” said Andreas Neufert, Vice President of Product Management, Alliances, at Veeam.
  • Specific benefits of the performance upgrades include:
    “Backblaze’s pioneering approach delivers cloud storage at 1/5th the price versus legacy vendors, and our latest innovation maintains those savings while delivering 10-30% faster performance versus AWS depending on the file size,” said Gleb Budman, Backblaze CEO and Chairperson of the Board.
  • These are the latest in a series of upgrades announced by the company, with additional B2 Cloud Storage download performance enhancements planned over the coming months.

BigID Data Intelligence Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

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Monday, November 6, 2023
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NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID, a leader in data security, privacy, governance and compliance, today announced that its BigID Data Intelligence Platform is now available on  Google Cloud Marketplace , empowering organizations to have greater visibility and control into their data. 

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID , a leader in data security, privacy, governance and compliance, today announced that its BigID Data Intelligence Platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace , empowering organizations to have greater visibility and control into their data.
  • Organizations can find and inventory sensitive data across  Google Cloud services, including Google Drive, Cloud Storage, Gmail, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Cloud SQL.
  • Unified Data Labeling & Policy Enforcement: Consistently label, categorize, and enforce data protection policies across both Google Cloud and non-Google Cloud data repositories for stronger data protection.
  • "With its solution now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, BigID is empowering our joint customers to have greater visibility and control into their data."

NetApp Extends Its Storage Leadership and Innovation at INSIGHT 2023 with the Only Unified Data Storage Across On-premises and Public Cloud

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Today, NetApp extends the definition of unified data storage to an entire architecture that enables file, block, and object workloads.

Key Points: 
  • Today, NetApp extends the definition of unified data storage to an entire architecture that enables file, block, and object workloads.
  • Unified data storage provides a common storage operating system that spans multiple on-premises storage offerings and every major public cloud, unified by a common API set and single control plane.
  • This includes the leading unified all-Flash storage, NetApp AFF, the new block-optimized all-Flash storage, NetApp ASA, and the only first-party, cloud-native storage solutions running on all of the three largest public clouds with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Microsoft Azure NetApp Files, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
  • To better serve these customers and the overall block storage market, NetApp introduced the NetApp All-Flash SAN Array (ASA) earlier this year.

NetApp Advances the State of AI & Secure Infrastructure at INSIGHT 2023

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Yesterday at NetApp INSIGHT 2023, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian spoke to the ongoing innovation and partnership between NetApp and his company, highlighting the August 2023 introduction of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

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  • Yesterday at NetApp INSIGHT 2023, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian spoke to the ongoing innovation and partnership between NetApp and his company, highlighting the August 2023 introduction of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
  • Today, NetApp and Google are announcing support for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes to support hybrid Generative AI applications.
  • Today, NetApp extended its Ransomware Recovery Guarantee is available for all on-premises NetApp ONTAP-based storage systems, including NetApp AFF, ASA and FAS.
  • NetApp can provide a single solution for DR from on premises to the cloud, minimizing the cost of providing standby DR infrastructure.

Zixi Available On Google Cloud Marketplace

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zixi, the industry leader for enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over any IP network, and provider of the award-winning Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP®) today announced that the company is building on its existing alliance with Google Cloud. Through this expanded alliance, companies in the media, telecommunications and entertainment verticals can deliver end-to-end broadcast quality live video solutions over IP using Google Cloud through Google Cloud Marketplace. The Zixi Broadcaster and Zixi ZEN Master control plane are now available for procurement through private offers, with the incremental benefit of purchasing Zixi services through Google Cloud Marketplace counting against Google Cloud Enterprise Agreement contracts supporting cost efficiencies, streamlining budgets and simplifying purchasing when provisioning Zixi's market-leading live video solutions with Google Cloud.  

Key Points: 
  • Through this expanded alliance, companies in the media, telecommunications and entertainment verticals can deliver end-to-end broadcast quality live video solutions over IP using Google Cloud through Google Cloud Marketplace.
  • The Zixi Broadcaster and Zixi ZEN Master control plane are now available for procurement through private offers, with the incremental benefit of purchasing Zixi services through Google Cloud Marketplace counting against Google Cloud Enterprise Agreement contracts supporting cost efficiencies, streamlining budgets and simplifying purchasing when provisioning Zixi's market-leading live video solutions with Google Cloud.
  • Google Cloud Marketplace lets users quickly deploy functional software packages that run on Google Cloud and allows customers to easily start up a familiar software package with Google Cloud services like Compute Engine or Cloud Storage, with no manual configuration required.
  • The Zixi SDVP and Zixi Broadcaster have been integrated with Google Cloud leveraging the unique Google Cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities and extensive Zixi APIs.

Nyriad Unveils Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Offering that Provides Game-Changing Simplicity and Flexibility

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service user experience is defined by its simplicity, requiring only three key decisions: Contract Term, Data Services and Reserve Commitment.

Key Points: 
  • Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service user experience is defined by its simplicity, requiring only three key decisions: Contract Term, Data Services and Reserve Commitment.
  • From there, Nyriad and its value-added reseller partners handle implementation and ongoing 24/7/365 proactive monitoring, alerting and customer support.
  • The Nyriad UltraIO-as-a-Service STaaS offering focuses on three core customer-friendly tenets: Capacity Flexibility, Billing Simplicity and Operational Simplicity.
  • Real-time flexibility to increase the Reserve Capacity throughout the term as business needs evolve, allowing the business to capitalize on lower Reserve Rates.

Supermicro Starts Shipments of NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip-Based Servers, the Industry's First Family of NVIDIA MGX Systems

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing one of the industry's broadest portfolios of new GPU systems based on the NVIDIA reference architecture, featuring the latest NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper and NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip. The new modular architecture is designed to standardize AI infrastructure and accelerated computing in compact 1U and 2U form factors while providing ultimate flexibility and expansion ability for current and future GPUs, DPUs, and CPUs. Supermicro's advanced liquid-cooling technology enables very high-density configurations, such as a 1U 2-node configuration with 2 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips integrated with a high-speed interconnect. Supermicro can deliver thousands of rack-scale AI servers per month from facilities worldwide and ensures Plug-and-Play compatibility.

Key Points: 
  • The range of new servers incorporates the latest industry technology optimized for AI, including NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, BlueField, and PCIe 5.0 EDSFF slots."
  • Supermicro's new NVIDIA MGX line of servers includes:
    ARS-111GL-NHR – 1 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, Air-Cooled
    ARS-111GL-NHR-LCC – 1 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, Liquid-Cooled
    ARS-111GL-DHNR-LCC – 2 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, 2 Nodes, Liquid-Cooled
    ARS-121L-DNR – 2 NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips in each of 2 Nodes, 288 Cores in total
    Every MGX platform can be enhanced with NVIDIA BlueField®-3 DPU and/or NVIDIA ConnectX®-7 interconnects for high-performance InfiniBand or Ethernet networking.
  • Supermicro's 1U NVIDIA MGX systems have up to 2 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips featuring 2 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and 2 NVIDIA Grace CPUs.
  • Every aspect of Supermicro NVIDIA MGX systems is designed to increase efficiency, ranging from intelligent thermal design to component selection.