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...
Storage News Roundup – June 2
The Cayman Islands could pitch itself as no-questions- asked repository for data as well as cash and assets, a government official has suggested. The British Overseas Territory in the...
Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme
Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems
Starfish Storage might not be a household name among enterprise storage practitioners, but in high performance computing circles,...
Hitachi Vantara primes partnership-driven AI push
Hitachi has worked to re-evaluate the fit of its Hitachi Vantara subsidiary to respond faster to the market’s adoption of AI and AI’s accelerating development, according to its Chief...
Storage news roundup – May 22
Arctera is collaborating with Red Hat and its InfoScale cyber-resilience product is certified on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
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Hitachi Vantara recently suffered a malware attack and we asked: “In the...
VAST Data launches AI operating system
Disaggregated shared everything (DASE) parallel storage and AI software stack provider VAST Data has announced an AI operating system.
VAST envisages a new computing paradigm in which “trillions of intelligent...
Storage news ticker – May 16
Open source ETL connector biz Airbyte announced progress in the first quarter with revenues up 25 percent, industry recognition, new product features, and Hackathon results. Michel Tricot, co-founder and...
HPE aims at VMware refugees with Morpheus upgrades
HPE is developing its Morpheus portfolio to lure VMware customers, adding efficiency, zero data loss, and ransomware resilience guarantees to its flagship Alletra MP B10000 scale-out block access array,...
VAST Data adds vector search and deepens Google Cloud ties
VAST Data has added vector search to its database and integrated its software more deeply into Google's cloud.
The database is part of its software stack layered on top of...
Storage news ticker – May 8
Data protector Arctera has updated its InfoScale cyber resilience product, saying it features:
Real-time, application-aware resilience: Arctera InfoScale spans both data and applications, enabling real-time recovery and proactive resilience management...
IBM has a THINK, boards the agentic enterprise AI train
IBM is giving its customers a tidal wave of watsonx AI news at its THINK 2025 conference, saying that AI agents are shifting from AI that chats with you...
Diskover’s upstream pipelining
Data management business Diskover was described in part one of a look at the company. In this second part we look at how its technology works and what sets...