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...
Storage news ticker – December 7
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Data migrator moving into data management Datadobi has released new Starter Packs for DobiMigrate ranging from 1PB up to 7PB. DobiMigrate Starter Packs were originally designed for the lower...
Amazon migrates offline tape data to Glacier with Snowball Edge VTL-in-a-box
Amazon Web Services suitcase-sized Snowball Edge box can now collect ingest data from tape cartridges and be shipped to an AWS centre for file import into Glacier object storage.
The...
Rubrik builds its own ransomware threat hunter
Rubrik has updated its data protection software with an in-house ransomware threat hunter, a Cloud Vault SaaS archival service built on Azure, extended source data coverage, and faster backups...
Storage news ticker – December 3
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An AWS blog contains a great summary of re:Invent 2021 announcements.
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Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS helps developers using Amazon Aurora databases to detect, diagnose, and resolve database performance issues...
Update adds four ways to make WekaIO slicker, smoother and safer
Superfast scale-out parallel file system supplier WekaIO has updated its software to better integrate flash, S3 object storage, cloud and on-premises file accesses in a single, slicker framework with...
Storage news ticker – December 2
AWS-palooza
AWS Lake Formation is a service to set up a secure data lake and has three new capabilities:
Lake Formation Governed Tables on Amazon S3 simplify building resilient data...
Storage news ticker – December 1
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AWS has announced four new storage offerings:
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data — now available as an access...
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...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business is growing...
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...