Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB
Virtual SAN provider Lightbits has an intelligent control plane to manage clusters of its block storage software instances federated together for 100 PB-plus deployments of Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenShift, and...
Databricks valued at $138B after $4B funding round
Databricks has raised more than $4 billion in an L round of venture funding, valuing the data warehousing and analytics company at $138 billion.
By comparison, competitor Snowflake has a...
Cohesity deepens Google Cloud tie-up for AI and cyber-resilience
Cohesity is strengthening its partnership with Google Cloud, expanding its data protection portfolio, widening its AI capabilities, and adding new data sovereignty and cybersecurity features.
The companies announced an initial...
IDrive marches into Salesforce backup arena
IDrive has a Salesforce Backup offering safeguarding customer data and metadata in their Salesforce accounts..
The company claims it is the world’s most popular backup service, with more than 5...
Cohesity braces for rogue AI agents with identity and recovery controls
Misbehaving and malicious autonomous AI agents could wreak havoc as they rampage through a data estate, unless they are controlled and regulated – which Cohesity intends to do –...
Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner
The latest Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Data Integration Tools report explains how growth in the market is set to decline as data management platforms converge.
Data source silos exist...
The nature of the VAST Data beast
Analysis. VAST Data has had a hectic year as the Generative AI training boom has provided an enormous tailwind for its business progress. As a private company, it has...
And then there were three – Qumulo embraces Google Cloud
Qumulo has ported its scale-out filesystem to the Google Cloud platform, making it available in the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) has exabyte-plus scalability and full support for...
AI data pipelines matter more than models
Scality, the object storage supplier, believes that the idea of competing businesses differentiating themselves by the particular AI foundation model they use is mistaken.
Model features will converge. What matters...
CTERA cites lab tests to claim its AI can head off ransomware
CTERA says independent tests show its AI-powered detection finds ransomware attacks before encryption is completed.
The company provides cloud-based distributed file services based on a central object storage system, either...
IBM snaps up Confluent in $11B all-cash deal
IBM has entered into a deal to buy Kafka data-streaming company Confluent, the companies announced Monday morning.
The price is $31 per share, a 25.5 percent premium over the...
Rocketship Rubrik’s revenues roar robustly to record
Security-focussed data protector Rubrik saw revenues rocket upwards as it landed new customers, expanded sales to existing ones and recast itself as a security and AI operations company..
Revenues in...