LucidLink slams foot down after $20m B-round
Almost a year to the day after its $12 million A-round, LucidLink, which presents public cloud object storage as local files, has taken $20 million in B-round funding.
Since the...
NetApp puts cloud-delivered desktops on the Spot
NetApp has announced a desktop-as-a-service product for the world of Windows.
Two years ago NetApp acquired North Carolina-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) player CloudJumper and started to supply the...
GigaOm assesses unstructured data management market
Analyst house GigaOm has researched the unstructured data management supplier field and given its assessment of their respective feature sets and goals.
The report looks at business-focused suppliers of unstructured...
Storage news ticker – May 12
Cloudflare has announced D1, the first cloud storage database for the Workers serverless platform, pitched as enabling developers to build fast, database-backed applications with just a few clicks. It said almost...
Software startup Observe scores $70m funding round
Startup Observe has raised $70 million to fund its growth as an analyzer of machine data that can make it intelligible to admin staff.
CEO Jeremy Burton told us Observe’s...
Pure uses Snowflake to get FlashBlade up close and cloud-adjacent with customers’ co-los
Pure Storage and Snowflake are arranging for Snowflake compute to access and analyze data stored in FlashBlade file+object boxes based in fast access, cloud-adjacent co-los like Equinix datacenters.
Snowflake’s cloud...
Seagate pushes Lyve Cloud into Hammerspace
Seagate and Hammerspace are working together to have Seagate's Lyve Cloud storage-as-a-service (STaaS) and Exos CORVAULT disk box included in Hammerspace's Global Data Environment (GDE).
The GDE provides access to...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Aerospike announced the GA of Aerospike Database 6 – the core engine that powers Aerospike's Real-time Data Platform. Aerospike Database 6 gives developers an environment that supports multiple programming...
Storage facing trillion-row database apocalypse
A new era of large-scale analytics and storage is opening up ahead of us. Ocient, Imply, VAST Data, and WEKA are four startups positioned to store and access data...
Storage news ticker – April 27
Arcion has announced a partnership to bring its cloud-native, CDC-based data replication platform to Databricks. Arcion's product can integrate transactional systems with the Databricks Lakehouse in real time, at...
Akamai launches managed database service
Security and content delivery network provider Akamai is launching a managed database service using Linode technology.
Akamai, which supplies high-availability services to enterprises, bought Linode in February this year for...
SingleStore will measure your app’s ‘data intensity’
SingleStore is introducing a "Data Intensity Index" to help companies understand how data-intensive their RDBMS applications are and how SingleStore’s database can cope with high data intensity levels.
The company...