IBM invests in SingleStore to get faster AI and analytics on distributed data
IBM has invested in SingleStore — the re-branded MemSQL that’s building a distributed, relational SQL database for both transaction and analytic workloads and is runs on-premises and in the...
Quest Software flipped from one private equity owner to another
Private equity-owned Quest Software, which supplies data management and protection software, has been bought by Clearlake Capital for an undisclosed amount, reported to be $5.4 billion.
Quest was started up...
Storage news ticker – November 29
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Amazon Web Services’ massive virtual and in-person re:Invent is now taking place with lots of announcements expected over the next few days. New CEO Adam Selipsky will be taking the...
Storage news ticker – November 23
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CDS, which supplies datacentre component monitoring services, announced its Raytrix MVS Insight offering with monitoring of a broad array of server, network, and storage environments and integration with leading ITSM...
Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021
$5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies.
We charted the...
Hammerspace Global Data Environment’s anti-gravity field for data is ready for the big...
Take a deep breath. Hammerspace, the unstructured data silo-busting supplier, has raised its game to provide a Global Data Environment (GDE) across file, block and object storage on-premises and...
Storage news ticker – November 15
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Backblaze is trading publicly after its IPO ran with no fuss. It went public on November 11. A Backblaze blog reads: “It means we have more resources with IPO...
Snowflake rebuts DataBricks’ Snowflake performance comparison as lacking integrity
Snowflake competitor Databricks claimed a TPC-DS benchmark record for its data lakehouse technology and said a study showed it was 2.5x faster than Snowflake. Databricks lacks integrity according to...
Nyriad gets new funding dollars for CPU+GPU storage array
GPU-influenced storage controller startup Nyriad has pulled in $28 million in new funding from existing investors.
Nyriad’s startup idea was to have a combined GPU plus CPU controller to cope...
StrongBox pivots to enterprise unstructured data management market, and a new name
StrongBox is looking likely to change its name to StrongLink as it pivots away from the high-end cross-silo file and object management market to pursue the broader enterprise market.
This...
StrongBox Data leadership team disappears
Archiver and cross-silo data manager StrongBox Data appears to have lost its exec leadership team, and a new CEO has been appointed.
The company’s StrongLink software provides a single file...
Quantum grows revenue again – despite ongoing impact of supply chain issues
File management and tape system vendor Quantum recorded its second consecutive growth quarter with $93.2 million revenues for Q2 2022 ended September 30. Revenues would have been higher but for...