Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge. Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its on-premises and public...
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Alluxio Enterprise AI v3.5 accelerates AI model training and streamlines operations with a new Cache Only Write Mode to accelerate checkpoints, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK...
View ArticleStorage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP)...
View ArticleData intelligence comes first when building AI
SPONSORED FEATURE: When it comes to artificial intelligence, it seems nothing succeeds like excess. As AI models become bigger and more capable, hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and enterprises...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – March 6
Kubernetes app data protector CloudCasa has integrated with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension. Users can install CloudCasa agents and manage and monitor backups directly from the...
View ArticleDruva and Microsoft go public on relationship status… it’s strategic
Druva’s relationship with Microsoft has been upgraded to “strategic,” meaning the data security vendor’s tech will be more tightly integrated into Azure. The firms already work together to provide...
View ArticleAWS serves up SageMaker Unified Studio for Pi Day
AWS is promising more disciplined and cost effective AI data pipelines with new services through its SageMaker and S3 Tables tools that go live today. As part of its contribution to Pi Day, the cloud...
View ArticleStorage vendors rally behind Nvidia at GTC 2025
Nine storage suppliers lined up in a carefully choreographed parade at Nvidia GTC 2025 to help Jensen Huang sell more GPUs, NICs, switches, and software to businesses buying AI stack systems,...
View ArticleAI puts value in the data. So how do we get it out?
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI is driving an explosion in infrastructure spending. But while GPU-enabled compute may grab the headlines, data management and storage are also central to determining whether...
View ArticleConfluent Tableflow unlocks real-time AI with Delta Lake and Iceberg
Data streamer Confluent has updated its Tableflow software to give AI and analytics software access to real-time operational data in data warehouses and lakes. The Tableflow updates build on the...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – March 24
Airbyte announced new capabilities for moving data at scale for AI and analytics workloads: … Lenovo announced new full-stack systems using Nvidia components at GTC 2025. The Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage...
View ArticleMariaDB CEO on database company regaining its mojo
Interview: B&F caught up Rohit de Souza, CEO of MariaDB, following his visit to Finland where he met founder Michael “Monty” Widenius. MariaDB was founded in 2009 by some of the original MySQL...
View ArticleKomprise adds automated share and permission mapping to speed data migrations
Komprise has updated its Elastic Data Migration (EDM) tech with automated destination share and user/permission mapping. EDM ships unstructured data from a source to a target system. EDM v1.0 in 2020...
View ArticleDatabricks partners with Anthropic, Palantir on enterprise AI
Datalake supplier Databricks has signed a deal with Palantir, developed a better way to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), and is including Anthropic’s Claude LLMs with its datalake in a five-year...
View ArticleProphecy 4.0 brings self-service data prep to Databricks analysts
Databricks data lake analysts can use Prophecy software to build their own data prep pipelines for downstream analytics and AI processing. Prophecy, which describes itself as a data transformation...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will be a...
View ArticleXenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back
XenData has launched an on-prem gateway appliance for moving Windows SMB media files to and from public cloud object storage. XenData provides storage products, such as on-prem X-Series tape archives...
View ArticleQuesma bridges Elasticsearch and SQL, promises faster, cheaper queries
Quesma has built a gateway between Elasticsearch EQL and SQL-based databases like ClickHouse, claiming EQL users can use it to access faster and cheaper stored data sources. EQL (Elastic Query...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – April 4
Cohesity announced it is the first data protection provider to achieve Nutanix’s Database Service (NDB) database protection Nutanix Ready validation. It says: “NDB is the market leading database...
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