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...
Backblaze Q1 2025 drive stats show slight rise in failure rates
Backblaze published its disk drive annual failure rates (AFRs) for Q1 2025, noting that the quarterly failure rate went up from 1.35 to 1.42 percent.
The cloud storage company was...
Pure debuts RC20 FlashArray//C with reused controllers for smaller deployments
Pure Storage has introduced a more affordable, low-capacity FlashArray//C model, the RC20, built with reconditioned controllers and aimed at edge deployments and smaller workloads.
The FlashArray//C series uses Pure’s proprietary...
Scan Computers deploys PEAK:AIO storage for Blackwell GPU cluster
An EMEA-based GPU server cloud provider is using PEAK:AIO storage to hold customer data for its Blackwell GPU cluster.
Startup PEAK:AIO is building scale-out AI Data Server storage based on highly...
Micron warns of inventory drag outside datacenters
Micron saw revenues for its DRAM and NAND grow year-over-year as datacenter servers used more high-bandwidth memory but sales outside the datacenter market turned down with buyers using up inventories.
Revenues...