Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a private cloud solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor, aiming at customers upset by the Broadcom-VMware merger. This is added to the existing bare-metal and container solutions in HPE’s Private Cloud offering. HPE is also the latest major IT vendor to partner with NVIDIA on a suite of private cloud solutions designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI in enterprise environments. This includes a complete turn-key AI hardware solution, including new servers equipped with the latest NVIDIA H200 accelerators, which are also available on-demand through GreenLake. HPE is also announcing the OpsRamp AI copilot for automated IT operations and HPE Private Cloud AI to accelerate customer AI application deployment.
1:11 – OpenAI Acquires Rockset to Target the Enterprise
OpenAI has purchased an analytics startup to aid in their AI plans. The company, Rockset, was bought on Friday for an undisclosed amount. OpenAi said that the Rockset technology will be added into the OpenAI platform and the Rockset employees will now be a part of the OpenAi team. Rockset provides analytics to help transform data into actionable intelligence, according to the press release. The move is seen as a way to provide more enhancements to OpenAi’s wildly popular LLM-based tools that don’t rely specifically on hardware enhancements.
Read More: OpenAI Snaps Up Rockset
4:05 – Hack Takes Down 15,000 Car Dealerships
If you’ve been trying to buy a car or get one fixed in the last week you probably have been turned away from the dealership. That’s because of a massive ransomware attack that has crippled over 15,000 car dealerships across the country. The system that was breached is from CDK Global, which runs all aspects of a dealership from financing to replacment parts ordering. The attack has been forcing dealerships to use older, offline methods and costing them customers. Reports say that the worst of the damage has already been fixed but that it could take months to get all the affected systems back online.
Read More: CDK Global investigating cyber incident, briefly shut all systems
7:17 – SUSE Offers CentOS Customers a Liberty Linux Lite Lifeline
On Sunday CentOS 7 reaches end of life and a new era of enterprise Linux begins. You can easily get on board with it now buy switching your CentOS updates to the new SUSE LIberty Linux Lite for CentOS. SUSE announced the move as a way to provide security updates to the 30% of enterprise machines out there still running the free OS. The difference between SUSE Liberty Lite and other alternatives like Alma or Rocky is that there is no need to to a full system installation. Liberty charges $25 per server per year, with a minimum investment of $2,500 required. SUSE promises to provide updates for CentOS 7 until 2028.
Read More: SUSE Offers Lifeline to Stranded CentOS Users with Liberty Linux Lite
11:33 – Broadcom Radically Simplifies VMware Offerings
VMware is courting the DevOps community with changes to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). They’re providing templates to will help build better service catalogs. In additonal VCF 5.2 allows for live patching and independent upgrades of Tanzu Grid systems. The goal is to provide an easier migration path from solutions like vSAN. VCF is being positioned as the flagship offering for users that have embraced Kubernetes while also encouraging users to move away from older vSphere deployments. VMware also announced that vSphere would be superseded by vSphere Foundation, which is a subscription-based update that integrates many of the new features into a platform designed to offer more than just bare hypervisor support.
Read More: Broadcom Updates to VMware Portfolio Streamline DevOps Workflows
15:57 – Announcements from Pure Accelerate 24
At Pure Storage//Accelerate 2024, the focus was on application modernization, emphasizing the shift towards cloud-native architectures to enhance scalability, resilience, and agility. The event highlighted the critical challenges of managing containers at scale and integrating hybrid cloud environments. Pure Storage announced enhancements to its unified storage platform and added AI capabilities to streamline data management and optimize storage operations. The company is also integrating Portworx with Pure Storage Purity, providing advanced data services for containerized applications.
Read More: Pure Storage//Accelerate 24 Announcements
Read More: Pure//Accelerate 2024 Takeaways and Driving Application Modernization
20:33 – Discovering the Latest News from HPE, Including Aruba Networking
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a private cloud solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor, aiming at customers upset by the Broadcom-VMware merger. This is added to the existing bare-metal and container solutions in HPE’s Private Cloud offering. HPE is also the latest major IT vendor to partner with NVIDIA on a suite of private cloud solutions designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI in enterprise environments. This includes a complete turn-key AI hardware solution, including new servers equipped with the latest NVIDIA H200 accelerators, which are also available on-demand through GreenLake. HPE is also announcing the OpsRamp AI copilot for automated IT operations and HPE Private Cloud AI to accelerate customer AI application deployment.
Read More: HPE’s New Virtualization Play
Read More: HPE Enters the Virtualization Market
Read More: HPE Unveils NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Enterprise AI Ascends
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