Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL
Volumez block storage for PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers more transactions per second at lower latency than the cloud providers’ own block storage instances.
PostgreSQL...
goHardDrive RMA customer details vulnerability
Developer Michael Lynch returned a disk drive to supplier goHardDrive after finding a flaw in its Return Merchant Authorization (RMA) process that he claimed could have accidentally published thousands...
Kioxia tunes SSD-based vector search for RAG workloads
Kioxia has tweaked its AiSAQ SSD-based vector search by enabling admins to vary vector index capacity and search performance for different workloads.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is an AI large language...
StorONE using Phison SW for integrated on-prem AI training system
StorONE is using Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ software in its ONEai automated AI system for enterprise storage.
SSD controller and latterly drive supplier Phison launched aiDAPTIV+, an LLM system that can be...
Databricks rolls out Lakebase Postgres and Agent Bricks for AI-era apps
Databricks has added a Lakebase Postgres database layer to its lakehouse, enabling AI apps and agents to run analytics on operational data within the Databricks environment. It also introduced...
Snowflake digs out $250M to buy Crunchy to plug Postgres gap
Snowflake has hoovered up Crunchy Data, plugging what was an increasingly visible gap in the cloud data giant’s Postgres strategy.
Snowflake had previously offered a PostGres connector to suck data...
NetApp revenues rise to all-time highs, but can it sustain?
Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand.
In the fourth fiscal 2025 quarter ended April 25, NetApp reported record revenues...
Salesforce snaffles Informatica to feed Agentforce with data
SaaS giant Salesforce is entering into an agreement to buy data integrator and manager Informatica in a bid to strengthen its Agentforce's data credentials, paying $25/share (totalling around $8...
Lenovo boasts near record revenues but profits slump
Lenovo reported its second-ever highest revenues for the fourth fiscal 2025 quarter as unexpected tariff rises affected profitability.
Revenues in the quarter, ended March 31, were up 23 percent Y/Y...
Kioxia revenues expected to go down
Kioxia announced fourth quarter and full fiscal 2024 year results with revenues up slightly but set to decline as rising datacenter and AI server sales fail to offset a...
Disk drive capacity shipments out to 2030 forecast to rocket upwards
An analyst report says disk drive capacity shipments are orojected to rise steeply bupwards between now and 2030.
This data is included in Tom Coughlin’s latest 174-page Digital Storage Technology...
Kioxia teases high-speed SSD aimed at AI workloads
Kioxia has announced a prototype CM9 SSD using its latest 3D NAND with 3.4 million random read IOPS through its PCIe Gen 5 interface, faster than equivalent drives from...