Snowflake, Databricks set to collide over AI
The two leading cloud data warehouse and lakehouse suppliers, Snowflake and Databricks, are racing to get the most comprehensive generative AI functions working on their customers’ data sets.
Both offer data...
Pliops founder hands CEO reins to Nvidia veteran
Host-based SSD controller array startup Pliops has a new CEO – Ido Bukspan coming from Nvidia.
Pliops, founded in Israel in 2017, has built its XDP (eXtreme Data Processor) to...
Storage news ticker – June 23
Real-time data platform supplier Aerospike has unveiled a new graph database with native support for the Gremlin query language. Aerospike claims today’s graph databases fail to perform at scale...
Storage news ticker – June 12
Aporia is using Databricks' Lakehouse Platform, AI capabilities, and MLflow offerings to provide ML observability to customers. Databricks customers can monitor their ML models in production without duplicating any...
Pliops and phoenixNAP team up to turbocharge Redis
Hardware-accelerated box-of-flash startup Pliops is partnering with IaaS provider phoenixNAP to offer petabyte-scale Redis clusters to users with in-memory-class performance.
Redis is a distributed open source, in-memory key:value database. Pliops’s...
Storage news ticker – May 12
Airbyte, which supplies an open source data integration platform, today announced its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Until now, Airbyte provided support to its users through...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
BMC buys virtual tape library biz Model9
BMC has bought Model9, the Israeli mainframe VTL and data export startup, for an undisclosed price.
Houston-based BMC started out in 1980 as a mainframe software company and developed into...
Volumez swells thanks to $20M A-round
SaaS-based storage orchestrator Volumez has raised $20 million.
This A-round of funding was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from existing investors Viola Ventures and Pitango. Viola and Pitango's...
Storage news ticker – April 5
Sorin Faibish has resigned from his director of product solutions role at block storage migrator Cirrus Data Solutions. He is now a performance engineer at NAS supplier OpenDrives.
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ALTR, an...
Oracle predicts: BlueField-3 is coming
Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPU is being added to the network stack in Oracle’s public cloud - OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) - to improve its application performance.
BlueField-3, with 22 billion transistors,...
3.4 times more Oracle MySQL transactions with Pliops’ SSD array controller
Host-based SSD controller array startup Pliops says it has boosted Oracle MySQL transactions/sec 3.4 times with its XDP product offloading server CPUs.
Update: Pliops question answers added in Bootnote. March...