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GenAI Show Us What’s Most Important, MinIO Creator Says: Our Data

Generative AI is a fundamental breakthrough that will have far-reaching implications for computing, according to MinIO CEO and co-founder Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy. But the biggest impact GenAI will have, he said, is Read more…

Object Storage a ‘Total Cop Out,’ Hammerspace CEO Says. ‘You All Got Duped’

The mass adoption of object storage systems like Amazon S3 may appear to be a top achievement of the big data era, since we got essentially unlimited storage accessible through REST commands. But to Hammerspace CEO David Read more…

Getting the Upper Hand on the Unstructured Data Problem

Unstructured data accounts for the vast majority of data stored in the world today, and it’s growing at a geometric rate. Organizations today may have petabytes of the stuff spread around various object stores and file Read more…

Data Leaders Share Thoughts on World Backup Day

As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick Read more…

Database Futures with a Cockroach Labs Co-Founder

Databases have evolved considerably over the past decade, but there’s still quite a bit more that databases can do, according to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder and CTO Peter Mattis, who sees serverless and multi-cloud capab Read more…

Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?

Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…

Teradata Taps Cloudian for On-Prem Lakehouse

Teradata has reinvented itself as a cloud-first data warehouse provider with its Vantage offering. But some customers don’t want to run analytic workloads in the cloud, which is why the data warehousing giant this week Read more…

Google Cloud Bolsters Storage with New Options for Block, Object, and Backup

Google Cloud used today’s Spotlight on Storage event to unveil several new storage options for customers, including a new block storage offering called Hyperdisk, a new file store option for Google Kubernetes Engine (G Read more…

Teradata Unveils New Data Lake, Advanced Analytics Offerings

Teradata today rolled out a pair of new products designed to broaden its appeal to a new generation of users, including a new data lake called VantageCloud Lake that melds the workload management capabilities of its epon Read more…

Teradata Puts New Cloud Architecture to the 1,000-Node Test

Teradata says the recent 1,000-node test that it ran on AWS not only shows the scale that its new cloud architecture can achieve, but also demonstrates the analytic flexibility required by its new target market, the Glob Read more…

MinIO, Now Worth $1B, Still Hungry for Data

MinIO was founded in 2014 near the peak of the Hadoop craze with what seemed like an outlandish idea: Build an open source object storage system based on Amazon S3. Eight years later, with a $1 billion valuation followin Read more…

MinIO Bolsters Enterprise Chops with K8s Integration

If you’re in the market for a modern, S3-compatible object storage system that works in multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, you may want to keep your eyes on MinIO, which today unveiled a trio of software updates tha Read more…

Achieving Data Accessibility and Durability, Without Making Copies

As the volume of large-scale unstructured data increases across the enterprise, there is commensurate need for scalable file storage and management. Alongside the shift from on-premises data to multi-cloud solutions, leg Read more…

Lenovo Looks to Unify Data Management

A set of data management building blocks unveiled this week by Lenovo’s Data Center Group seeks to unify data from edge to cloud via new data management software, an all-flash storage array that supports object storage Read more…

Did Dremio Just Make Data Warehouses Obsolete?

Imagine that your users can query a cloud object store from their favorite BI tools, and get responses back in less than a second. Would you still pay for a dedicated cloud data warehouse at that point? According to Drem Read more…

Cloudian Pins Container Hopes on K8s Operator

Object storage systems like Amazon S3 are currently winning the big data storage battle, thanks to low costs and infinite capacities. But getting object stores to work with containerized applications isn’t always strai Read more…

Confluent Goes ‘Infinite’ with Kafka Cloud Storage

Companies that want to store oodles of event data in Kafka but don’t want to pay oodles of dollars may be interested in the new “infinite storage” option unveiled today by Confluent. The Kafka company says the new Read more…

Object Stores Starting to Look Like Databases

Don’t look now, but object stores – those vast repositories of data sitting behind an S3 API – are beginning to resemble databases. They’re obviously still separate categories today, but as the next-generation da Read more…

Red Hat Ceph 4 Automates Data Management

Data-driven workloads like machine learning and analytics along with the growing demands of distributed application development are driving object storage repositories. Hence, vendors are releasing petabyte-scale options Read more…

Storage in the Exabyte Era

Back in 2010, a petabyte was considered a lot of data for a single company to have. But today, petabyte is child’s play, and the biggest enterprises are managing data stored in the exabyte range. Finding economical way Read more…

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