Rockset expands public cloud duopoly to include Azure
Real-time analytics platform Rockset has added connectors for Microsoft Azure, meaning developers of modern data apps can now slurp data from all three major cloud providers and combine them for...
Vcinity turns to Dell to help customers defy data gravity
Vcinity is banking on a tie-up with Dell’s OEM Engineered Solutions team to make it easier for data-heavy customers to adopt its hybrid cloud data platform, four years after...
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DCIG president and founder Jerome Wendt has blogged about the Five Challenges of Managing Air-gapped Technologies Using Backup Software. We’ve not seen this issue raised elsewhere. He says storing...
Flash and software-defined storage are taking over the datacenter
A report by SWZD titled "Hardware Trends in 2022 and Beyond" says that although the public cloud is taking customer spend away from on-premises datacenters, they're still crucial infrastructure.
The...
Azure Oracle database speed doubles with Silk storage: source
New Azure compute instances have doubled Oracle database speeds when using Silk storage, B&F has been told.
Silk’s software provides storage to apps running Azure virtual machines by using Azure’s...
Lightbits Labs heading towards the public cloud and MSPs
Now in its seventh year, Lightbits Labs is broadening its scope from being an NVMe/TCP-focused storage vendor to becoming a data services supplier which happens to use NVMe/TCP as...
NetApp withdraws from Russia
NetApp is suspending its Russian operations in light of the Ukraine invasion.
The company has employees in Russia and sells to local businesses via an OEM agreement with Fujitsu. Tech...
Druva adds all-in-one snapshot, backup, DR service for Amazon EC2
Druva has expanded its SaaS data protection portfolio to include Amazon's EC2 with combined snapshot, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
This service provides secure, air-gapped backups to protect against...
Faster SQL engine and new metastore for Dremio’s ‘data lakehouse’
Data analyser startup Dremio, which wants to kill off data warehouses, has launched a data lakehouse cloud, a Sonar SQL engine, and an Arctic lakehouse metadata store using Apache...
Strong order growth at HPE but storage revenues drop 3 per cent
Revenues rose just 2 per cent in HPE’s first fiscal 2022 quarter, but order growth was up 20 per cent with as-a-service up 136 per cent. Supply constraints affecting...
Hazelcast’s streaming data in-memory software features hopping, tumbling, and tiers
Hazelcast has added more SQL streaming data capabilities and tiering to its in-memory data grid software so that real-time and older information can be queried simultaneously.
The company basically stores...
Imply shapeshifters change Druid’s appearance
Imply has added a Polaris database service and faster query engine to its open-source Druid core.
Apache Druid is a database providing real-time query answers from vast sets of streaming...