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Aerospike Nabs $109M to Grow Data Biz Turbocharged by AI
Aerospike is hoping to grow its business as fast as its customers are growing their data. And with today’s Series E round valued at $109 million, Aerospike has the capital to do just that, capturing more AI-linked work Read more…
Maximizing Your Data Migration Investment
Many organizations are migrating their data these days, but they aren’t always doing so in an efficient manner. This means they’re effectively leaving money on the table. Two key areas of consideration are data relev Read more…
Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks
Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…
Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service
Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…
The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says
We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…
News In Brief
Explosion of Observability Data from Cloud Reaches Tipping Point, Dynatrace Says
Companies have reached a tipping point where the volume and complexity of observability data (logs, metrics, traces, and events) created by cloud-native IT systems exceeds the value that companies are able to extract fro Read more…
HPE Cranks the Density on GreenLake NAS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today unveiled an update of its GreenLake for File Storage offering that features a 4x increase in total capacity and up to 2x boost in system performance per rack unit. Depending on their situ Read more…
Reducing Cloud Waste a Top Priority in 2024, FinOps Foundation Says
The increasing cost of cloud computing, particularly when it comes to storing data to feed AI algorithms, is a growing concern among companies, particularly larger ones, according to a new report by the FinOps Foundation Read more…
The VAST Potential for Hosting GenAI Workloads, Data
There is big data, and then there is VAST Data, which has emerged as one of the world’s hottest tech firms over the past year. The company, which started out as developer of flash storage arrays, has morphed into a ful Read more…
Data Quality Top Obstacle to GenAI, Informatica Survey Says
A new survey of data leaders by Informatica points to data quality as the number one obstacle to implementing generative AI. The number of data management tools that companies are using, as well as the fact that a large Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2024 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console. Read more…
TORONTO, Ontario, March 14, 2024 – LXT, an emerging leader in global AI training data, today released its third annual executive survey, The Path to AI Maturity. This latest report found that organizations have taken large steps, with nearly three-quarters (72%) reporting that they have reached higher levels of AI maturity. Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 14, 2024 —Yugabyte, the distributed PostgreSQL database company for cloud native applications, today announced that it successfully achieved PCI DSS compliance, becoming a PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider for the fully-managed DBaaS offering of YugabyteDB. Read more…