Storage news ticker – November 15
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Backblaze is trading publicly after its IPO ran with no fuss. It went public on November 11. A Backblaze blog reads: “It means we have more resources with IPO...
Snowflake rebuts DataBricks’ Snowflake performance comparison as lacking integrity
Snowflake competitor Databricks claimed a TPC-DS benchmark record for its data lakehouse technology and said a study showed it was 2.5x faster than Snowflake. Databricks lacks integrity according to...
StrongBox pivots to enterprise unstructured data management market, and a new name
StrongBox is looking likely to change its name to StrongLink as it pivots away from the high-end cross-silo file and object management market to pursue the broader enterprise market.
This...
Storage News Ticker – November 11
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Cloud backup service supplier Datto reported $157.9 million revenues for calendar Q3 2021, up 20 per cent year-on year, with profits of $13.5 million, up 31 per cent. Tim...
Fourth generation Pure FlashArray//X is coming
Pure Storage says it’s launching another FlashArray system on December 8.
The marketing blurb gushes about “an entirely new level of performance to the FlashArray family, powering the next era...
Druidic Imply launches Shapeshift project for modern analytics
Real-time analytics database startup Imply has unveiled Project Shapeshift — designed to develop a hardware-abstracting, auto-scaling control plane and SaaS service for the open source Apache Druid software on which...
Amazon Cloud can save the world — AWS plays the green card
AWS is proclaiming that businesses in Europe can reduce energy use by nearly 80 per cent when they run their applications on the AWS Cloud instead of operating their...
Pure gets FlashBlade in Equinix colos for fast Azure connectivity
Pure Storage has announced an impressive partnership with Azure for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) storage and compute in the cloud.
Pure, Equinix and Microsoft Azure will deliver cloud-adjacent storage using...
Storage news ticker – November 5
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Dropbox announced Q3 2021 results for its quarter ended September 30, 2021. Revenue was $550.2 million — an increase of 12.9 per cent year on year. Total ARR ended at $2.218 billion, an...
MemVerge puts elephantine big memory movability in the cloud
MemVerge’s Big Memory Cloud technology brings Big Memory Computing to multi-cloud environments.
Startup MemVerge has software combining DRAM and Optane DIMM persistent memory into a single clustered storage pool for...
Storage news ticker – November 4
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Database management company EDB has today announced GA of BigAnimal, the world’s first fully managed, open source PostgreSQL database in the cloud with compatibility for Oracle database technology. It...
Backblaze wants to flame into an IPO
Backup and cloud storage provider Backblaze has filed for an IPO and launched its roadshow.
It intends to offer 6,250,000 shares of its Class A common stock to the public...