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...
Kasten founders involved in another startup – sources
Blocks & Files' sources in the storage industry say that Kasten's founders are brewing a startup connected to data management, just over a year after Veeam acquired their container data...
Storage News Ticker – 22 April
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Unstructured NAS and object data migrator and manager Datadobi has signed Climb Channel Solutions to distribute its products to resellers and solution providers in the EMEA region.
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Gartner has released...
Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo expressed two noteworthy views in an interview with Blocks & Files – that hyperconverged infrastructure doesn’t exist inside hyperscaler datacenters, and that data needs...
Storage news ticker – April 20
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An updated all-flash array history chart includes newer entrants like VAST Data and StoreOne, older ones like Fusion-io, Violin and Vexata, and more acquisitions. Enjoy this snapshot and tell...
VAST links arms with Vertica for fast analytics
All-flash scale-out file and object storage supplier VAST Data is using Vertica's analytics software with the aim of wrangling data from VAST’s array at high speed.
Micro Focus-owned Vertica...