Zilliz raises $60m for cloud vector database
Startup Zilliz has raised $60 million to boost engineering and go-to-market efforts for its cloud vector database.
In July we wrote that Zilliz, founded in 2017 with $53 million funding,...
XenData kit takes tape copies of cloud archives
Archiving system supplier XenData has launched an appliance which makes a local tape copy of a public cloud archive to save on geo-replication and egress fees.
XenData’s CX-10 Plus is...
Storage news ticker – August 23
High-end storage array supplier Infinidat has announced NVMe/TCP certification with vSphere ESXi, and vVols replication with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integration. These new capabilities complement Infinidat’s VMware integrations,...
StorPool adds NVMe/TCP and NFS and ports to AWS
StorPool Storage has added NVMe/TCP access to its eponymous block storage system, file access with NFS, and ported it to AWS.
This v20.0 release also adds more business continuity, management...
Storage news ticker – August 22
Dell has updated its multi-hypervisor-supporting PowerFlex HCI software to v4.0, adding unified tools and UIs for lifecycle management and IT Ops with automated storage management across file and block...
SingleStore integrates with SAS Viya
SingleStore has added an upstream analytics player to its ecosystem with SAS and its Viya offering.
SAS is a long-time analytics processing software producer. Viya is its cloud-native AI, analytic...
Mainframers are keeping tape as they add cloud backup, archive storage
An Evaluator Group research project has found that tape use by mainframe users is not going away and that cloud storage of their backup and archive data is increasing...
OpenDrives now a backup target through Zmanda deal
NAS supplier OpenDrives has set its product up as a backup target through a deal with Zmanda and its open source Amanda Enterprise backup software.
OpenDrives provides scale-out and high-performance...
Cloudera SaaSifies CDP with data lakehouse service
Big data analytics supplier Cloudera has launched its Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) One, an all-in-one data lakehouse software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for self-service analytics and exploratory data science on any...
HYCU offers protection freebie on AWS EC2
Backup-as-a-Service biz HYCU is offering a free-for-life tier of data protection on AWS, a rung below its paid-for tier and missing things like immutability. You will still pay for...
Barracuda sold to another private equity business
Mail backup and security vendor Barracuda Networks has been sold by its private equity owner to another, giving an indication of late-stage startup life after an IPO had been...
Bocada says automated BackupOps is coming
Data protection status monitor Bocada says automation is coming to manual backup operations, such as detecting a failed backup operation and doing something about it. About time too.
The company was...