Storage News Ticker – November 3
Open-source player Airbyte, which provides data source to destination connector tech, has a "Powered by Airbyte" version that enables software developers to embed over 100 integrations into their applications....
Backblaze blitzes cloud storage speeds with ‘shard stash’ cache
Backblaze cloud and backup storage is speeding up small file uploads by using a fast SSD ingest cache called a shard stash.
The business stores ingested files on disk drives,...
Snowflake unleashes Snowday announcement blizzard
Snowflake has announced improved support for external data, app development, generative AI models, data governance, and cost management directly in its data warehouse cloud at the Snowday 2023 gabfest.
The...
Storage news ticker – 31 October
Cohesity has appointed Dave Kushner as its VP for Federal Sales. He was VP Federal Sales at Enveil and an SVP of Sales at ViON Corp before that. He...
Oxide on-prem cloud computer reinvents the server rack
Startup Oxide has delivered a rack-level system providing cloud-style computing on premises as its first commercial product.
Oxide was founded in September 2019 by datacenter heavyweights CTO Bryan Cantrill, CPO...
Hitachi Vantara gives birth to AI-led Digital Services unit
Hitachi has spun out a Digital Services unit from Hitachi Vantara to provide generative AI-led services across the business.
Vantara is the enterprise storage data infrastructure business inside Hitachi, covering...
Pure Storage exec shuffle combines FlashBlade and FlashArray product managment
Pure Storage is ringing in some exec-level changes after combining the FlashBlade and FlashArray product management teams.
FlashBlade is an all-flash array for storing unstructured data. It includes a...
Seagate revenue decline continues amid slow HDD sales
Revenue declines continue at Seagate – first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings were 29 percent lower than a year ago, when they were 35 percent down on the year before...
Backblaze B2 cloud / Stores HYCU backup data / In a low cost vault
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has inked a deal with SaaS backup supplier HYCU.
Backblaze provides S3-compliant B2 cloud storage more affordably than Amazon S3 and with no egress charges. It...
NetApp tells analysts it’s focusing on full AI lifecycle
NetApp has been providing its storage and data management systems for AI work since 2018 or earlier and says it is well positioned as large language model workloads transition...
Storage news ticker – October 25
Data intelligence supplier Alation has signed up three new partners: Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing, and ThoughtSpot, all of which provide connectors to data sources.
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Geo-distributed and decentralized storage provider Cubbit...
Panasas overhauls leadership to target AI and HPC
Panasas has appointed new sales, alliances, operations, and engineering leaders as incoming CEO Ken Claffey sets out to grow the parallel file system supplier's business.
Three of the four new...