XenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back
XenData has launched an on-prem gateway appliance for moving Windows SMB media files to and from public cloud object storage.
XenData provides storage products, such as on-prem X-Series tape archives...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will...
Prophecy 4.0 brings self-service data prep to Databricks analysts
Databricks data lake analysts can use Prophecy software to build their own data prep pipelines for downstream analytics and AI processing.
Prophecy, which describes itself as a data transformation copilot...
Databricks partners with Anthropic, Palantir on enterprise AI
Datalake supplier Databricks has signed a deal with Palantir, developed a better way to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), and is including Anthropic’s Claude LLMs with its datalake in...
Komprise adds automated share and permission mapping to speed data migrations
Komprise has updated its Elastic Data Migration (EDM) tech with automated destination share and user/permission mapping.
EDM ships unstructured data from a source to a target system. EDM v1.0 in...
MariaDB CEO on database company regaining its mojo
Interview: B&F caught up Rohit de Souza, CEO of MariaDB, following his visit to Finland where he met founder Michael "Monty" Widenius.
MariaDB was founded in 2009 by some...
Storage news ticker – March 24
Airbyte announced new capabilities for moving data at scale for AI and analytics workloads:
Support for the Iceberg open standard for moving data into lakehouses
Enterprise Connector Bundle that includes connectors...
Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations)...
Confluent Tableflow unlocks real-time AI with Delta Lake and Iceberg
Data streamer Confluent has updated its Tableflow software to give AI and analytics software access to real-time operational data in data warehouses and lakes.
The Tableflow updates build on the...
AI puts value in the data. So how do we get it out?
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI is driving an explosion in infrastructure spending. But while GPU-enabled compute may grab the headlines, data management and storage are also central to determining whether enterprises...
Storage vendors rally behind Nvidia at GTC 2025
Twelve storage suppliers lined up in a carefully choreographed parade at Nvidia GTC 2025 to help Jensen Huang sell more GPUs, NICs, switches, and software to businesses buying AI...
AWS serves up SageMaker Unified Studio for Pi Day
AWS is promising more disciplined and cost effective AI data pipelines with new services through its SageMaker and S3 Tables tools that go live today.
As part of its contribution...