Storage news ticker – April 11
Reuters reports that AWS has lost an S3 and Dynamo DB patent infringement case brought by Kove IO. The jury awarded Kove $525 million. The case took place in...
Storage news ticker – April 9
Apache released Airflow 2.9, the latest version of the popular open source project, a data orchestration tool with more than 12 million monthly downloads and 33,000 GitHub stars. Airflow 2.9...
Datacenter storage system market declines 7%, says analyst
While the total global datacenter infrastructure market for 2023 managed some growth, the data storage and server segments showed major declines, according to a report from analyst house Dell'Oro...
Deep-seated issues delay Cirata growth
Cirata, the successor to crashed WANdisco, has reported decreased revenues and increased losses for 2023.
WANdisco supplied replication-based Data Integration (DI) and DevOps/Application Lifecycle Management (DevOps) software. According to WANdisco's...
Precisely says it’s smoothing migration of Db2 analytics data to AWS cloud
Precisely says its Precisely Connect data integration solution now brings together Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and IBM Db2 (Database 2) database workloads. This is intended to simplify...
DataStax acquires Langflow to boost LLM development
DataStax is buying Langflow, a large language model (LLM) development pipeline startup, to make building LLMs using proprietary data easier.
DataStax supplies its Astra DB database with vector embeddings support...
IBM revamps storage product brand names for clarity
Big Blue has embarked upon a feast of rebadging, in hopes of communicating more clearly what its various product lines do.
Back in 2015, IBM had instituted a Spectrum prefix...
Business continuity in war time: Is it even possible?
Ravit Sadeh, Senior Director of Product Management at Israel-based CTERA
Comment War isn't a snapshot in time. It's a relentless storm that tests every part of a person, every part...
IPO looming – again – for Rubrik
Bloomberg reported over Easter that Rubrik is prepping an IPO and could file papers with the SEC this week.
This follows a Reuters report in February that the Bipul Sinha-led...
Starburst points to scale-up in AI and hybrid cloud with senior hires
Enterprise data management vendor Starburst, which bills itself as "the open lakehouse," has brought in a number of seasoned data veterans to help it scale up.
Steven Chung has been...
Databricks rolls out open source GenAI LLM
Lakehouse supplier Databricks has launched the DBRX GenAI large language model (LLM).
It says DBRX lets customers build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs more cheaply, without having to rely...
Observe secures $115 million Series B funding on back of high growth
Startup Observe has raised a $115 million B-round for its SaaS-based observability service following 171 percent ARR growth in its latest fiscal year.
Observability and application performance monitoring (APM) software...