Pure-as-a-Service: Why eliminating labour through vendor-managed SLAs is the future
Paid feature Prakash Darji, general manager for the Digital Experience Business Unit at Pure Storage, tells us why the company is "trying to SaaS-ify storage behind SLAs" - and...
Faster SQL engine and new metastore for Dremio’s ‘data lakehouse’
Data analyser startup Dremio, which wants to kill off data warehouses, has launched a data lakehouse cloud, a Sonar SQL engine, and an Arctic lakehouse metadata store using Apache...
Storage news ticker – 2 March
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Datadobi, known for migration and data management ambitions, says the CBX agency has moved its data from an end-of-life NetApp system to a new one, using DobiMigrate migration software....
Hazelcast’s streaming data in-memory software features hopping, tumbling, and tiers
Hazelcast has added more SQL streaming data capabilities and tiering to its in-memory data grid software so that real-time and older information can be queried simultaneously.
The company basically stores...
Imply shapeshifters change Druid’s appearance
Imply has added a Polaris database service and faster query engine to its open-source Druid core.
Apache Druid is a database providing real-time query answers from vast sets of streaming...
Pure Storage PortWorx Q&A: Why storage needs a data strategy
Paid Feature Murli Thirumale is VP and general manager of the Cloud Native Business Unit at PortWorx, now part of Pure Storage, and he told Blocks & Files why...
Veritas chasing hyper-automation with NetBackup 10
Veritas has launched v10.0 of its NetBackup data protection product along with an Autonomous Data Management strategy.
It says Veritas is planning for a future where its technology is able...
Amp It Up: Snowflake boss pens hands-on CEO toolkit
Frank Slootman has written another book about how to run a business based on his time at Data Domain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake.
Our first thought was "not again" – he...
Streaming fast: Druid’s event-based database practices for sub-second trillion row response
Analysis: Netflix uses an open-source Druid analytics database to understand and quantify how users' devices are handling browsing and playback. Other Druid users include Airbnb, Alibaba, Cisco, eBay, Lyft,...
Storage news ticker – 18 February
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Boston-based startup ChaosSearch has said it more than doubled its headcount in 2021, and expanded into Europe. ChaosSearch is focused on making it easier for companies to store, access, and...
Storage news ticker – 16 February
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Broadcom announced the availability of the industry's most secure and highest density Gen-7 64Gbit/sec Fibre Channel switch platform: the Brocade 128-port G730 Switch. It also announced the industry's first...
The new cloud infrastructure software stack
The arrival, acceptance, and establishment of the public cloud has caused a whole new application system infrastructure to be erected across the clouds and on-premises datacentres so that developing...