NetApp appoints new CMO
NetApp has appointed software and cloud-focused Gabrielle Boko as its new CMO to replace the departing James Whitemore.
Whitemore, NetApp EVP and CMO from November 2019 until this month, and...
Why is there a market for S3 backups and data lake protection?
Cloud-based data lakes store data in cloud object storage and that data needs protecting – that's the whole pitch made by SaaS data protection suppliers such as Commvault, Druva,...
Storage news ticker – January 5
The co-founding analyst at ESG, Steve Duplessie, has retired, becoming a professional golfer at the Ibis Golf and Country Club in Palm Beach, Florida. He has been a fixture...
Opinion: Online disk archives are just wrong
A question: what’s the difference between nearline disk storage and an active archive system only using disk drives? The answer is none.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word archive thus:...
Storage news ticker – 3 January 2023
Acronis' latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 has found that phishing and the use of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) fatigue attacks are on the rise....
DataOS company TMDC moves into view, but some details are missing
A startup called The Modern Data Company has appeared with DataOS, a data operating system aimed at unifying data silos, old and new, and giving users a self-service programmable...
Ahana: Lakehouses need community-governed SQL
It’s not just any old SQL lakehouses need, but open community source SQL, according to Ahana CEO and co-founder Steven Mih, a member of the governing board of the...
And just like SPAC, MariaDB has gone public
Popular open source database supplier MariaDB has gone public through a SPAC deal. Its shares will be traded as MRDB on the New York Stock Exchange from today.
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Storage news ticker – December 15
Apache Cassandra v4.1 is a milestone release that's mainly a feature update geared toward preparing for the major changes for developers in 5.0. Significant core services changes have been...
SingleStore claims 100x speed boost for JSON queries
SingleStore claims to have accelerated queries up to 100x for transactional apps working with JSON semi-structured data.
This is part of SingleStore's v8.0 release of its unified real-time transactional and...
Why hybrid data storage needs a single managed console
Sponsored Feature: Data is often analogised as the ‘lifeforce’ of the modern enterprise as it circulates around the body corporate, from analytics teams to business units, sparking technological innovation...
CTERA adopts more multi-cloud ideas
Cloud file services supplier CTERA has adopted Panzura and Hammerspace-style tech in its v7.5 release with parallel networking to its geographically distributed global file system, edge cache deduplication, and...