Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the vendor’s strategic...
Storage news ticker – December 13
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Cloud-native data linking platform Confluent announced the availability of Confluent Data Streaming Service on Alibaba Cloud. That means customers in mainland China now have a data-streaming platform to harness...
Venn diagram-inspired data sharer gets great revenue growth
Vendia today announced 900 per cent year-on-year revenue growth, a pay-as-you-go self-service pricing plan, and the beta launch of Azure support in Vendia Share — the world’s first serverless...
NetApp appoints chief product officer who doesn’t look after all products
NetApp has appointed its first chief product officer, Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, who will look after most — but not all — of NetApp’s products.
Bhela starts in January 2022, and...
Storage news ticker – December 9
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Data protector and manager Cohesity has announced a new head of EMEA channels: James Worrall. He was previously VP of EMEA channel at F5 Networks and EMEA channel sales...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of rows per...
First mile data, petabyte-scale observability pipelines explained
Blocks & Files received an announcement from a startup called Calyptia that discussed data observability pipelines for petabytes of first mile data from thousands of servers. Bless. We hadn’t...
Komprise explains the mess: files, objects, silo sprawl and abstraction layers
As if in a dream, I thought: suppose we didn’t have file and object storage? Would we invent them? Now that we do have them, should they be united...
Storage news ticker – November 30
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AWS has updated its Compute Optimizer tool to better recommend which AWS facilities are matched to a particular workload, using resource efficiency metrics and analysing historical workload patterns. There...
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...