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Stratoscale crashes to earth

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Hyperconverged software startup Stratoscale is closing down. The Israeli company was founded in 2012 by Ariel Maislos and Eyal Bogner and has raised $70m in funding to date. Investors include...

HYCU becomes your data protection Protégé

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HYCU has announced general availability of its data protection-as-a-service offering called Protégé. The data protection vendor revealed this as a project last month. Simon Taylor, CEO, said: “It’s now become...

Komprise preps on-premises object storage tiering

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Komprise cloud analytics can move objects between cloud object classes and the company is adding this capability to on-premises object stores. Speaking to Blocks & Files today CEO Kumar Goswami...

StorCentric’s Retrospect joins backup to cloud crowd

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StorCentric looks to move ahead with QLC flash and add cross-product backup to the cloud as it integrates its four acquisitions. These were our takeaways from an interview with...

Meatier MemSQL database munches more data in memory and goes faster on disk

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Version 7 of MemSQL’s relational database, out today, does space-saving in memory and adds hash indexing on disk to speed access.  This is phase 1 of MemSQL’s single row+column concept,...

A brief look at AWS Redshift’s AQUA acceleration hardware

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Amazon Web Services AQUA (the Advanced Query Accelerator) is a scale-out set of hardware nodes that provides parallel processing of data sets moving from S3 buckets to the Redshift data...

Snowflake sets up private data sharing hub for its customers

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Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse power house, has opened a Private Data Exchange for listing Snowflake data sets and secure sharing within a business and its ecosystem. CEO Frank Slootman...

Amazon soups up RedShift

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Amazon has announced ways of accessing stored data faster with new options for its Redshift data warehouse such as caching, storage tiering and federated queries. It comes, AWS says, against...

Komprise attacks AWS cloud file storage fog with cut-through software service

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Komprise has extended its file storage usage and cost tracker to the cloud. It is showcasing Cloud Data Growth Analytics (CDGA) this week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas....

Druva sinks deeper backup hooks into AWS

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Druva is improving its backup capabilities with AWS to offer a broader spread of data protection and archiving options. In a briefing with Blocks & Files, Druva’s chief technical evangelist,...

Nutanix loves HPE (and Wall Street loves Nutanix)

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Nutanix posted the biggest loss in its short history yesterday - and was rewarded with shares jumping 20 per cent in overnight trading. The hyperconverged infrastructure vendor generated revenues of...

Your occasional storage digest, featuring Amazon, DDN, Intel and more

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It’s all about speed this week; Amazon is announcing new stuff before its December Re: Invent conference. DDN has spruced up its arrays and Intel is launching a data...