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Cloudflare Announces Major Updates for R2 Including Event Notifications and GCS Support

Cloudflare, a global connectivity cloud company, announced key updates for R2, the company’s S3-compatible object storage service. The expanded capabilities are part of Cloudflare's broader goal of continually improvin Read more…

Putting Your Data On the Table

One of the big breakthroughs in data engineering over the past seven to eight years is the emergence of table formats. Typically layered atop column-oriented Parquet files, table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta, and A Read more…

Inside AWS’s Plans to Make S3 Faster and Better

As far as big data storage goes, Amazon S3 has won the war. Even among storage vendors whose initials are not A.W.S., S3 is the defacto standard for storing lots of data. But AWS isn’t resting on its laurels with S3, a Read more…

Tabular Plows Ahead with Iceberg Data Service, $26M Round

Apache Iceberg appears to have the inside track to become the defacto standard for big data table formats at this point. And with today’s $26 million round, the company behind the open source project, Tabular, is bette 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…

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…

AWS Rocks with New Analytics, AI Services at re:Invent

With classic rock tunes playing, Adam Selipsky took the stage for his first re:Invent keynote as the new CEO of AWS, the $60-billion cloud juggernaut that was founded just 15 years ago. This was the first re:Invent witho Read more…

Alluxio Nabs $50M, Preps for Growth in Data Orchestration

Data orchestration software provider Alluxio today announced the close of an oversubscribed $50-million Series C round, which its CEO plans to spend on a global expansion. It also launched version 2.7 of its software, wh Read more…

Log Storage Gets ‘Chaotic’ for Communications Firm

As the dedicated WiFi provider for the Toronto subway system, BAI Communications generates a fair amount of log data, which it stores and analyzes using the Elastic family of products, including Logstash and Kibana. But Read more…

ChaosSearch Widens the Zone for Data Lake Analytics

When ChaosSearch emerged from stealth last year, its mantra was all about enabling customers to run log analytics on massive amounts of data in Amazon S3 using familiar tools, like Kibana. With today’s update, the comp 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…

Apache Iceberg: The Hub of an Emerging Data Service Ecosystem?

Engineers at Netflix and Apple created Apache Iceberg several years ago to address the performance and usability challenges of using Apache Hive tables in large and demanding data lake environments. Now the data table fo Read more…

Dremio Officially a ‘Unicorn’ As it Reaches $1B Valuation

The explosion of data lake analytics in the cloud has been good for Dremio, which today announced the completion of a $135-million Series D round. The company’s valuation has more than doubled in the past year to $1 bi Read more…

Ahana Goes GA with Presto on AWS

Organizations that want to analyze massive amounts of data stored in S3 and other cloud repositories may be interested in Ahana, which today announced the general availability of the first cloud-native managed service fo Read more…

AWS Bolsters Its Lakehouse

Amazon Web Services wants you to create data silos to ensure you get the best performance when processing data. AWS also wants to help unify your data to ensure that insights don’t fall between the cracks. If you think Read more…

The Object (Store) of Your Desire

As the data explosion continues to reverberate across the land, organizations are turning to object storage systems to keep it tidy and organized. Public clouds run the biggest and most popular object stores, but there a 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…

Rethinking Log Analytics at Cloud Scale

Log analytics is soaring in popularity, and Elasticsearch has captured a lot of that growth. But running a performant Elasticsearch cluster at scale is notoriously difficult. Now a company called ChaosSearch is touting a Read more…

Will the Presto Community Ever Be United Again?

If you haven’t noticed yet, there’s drama in Presto-land. There are now two versions of the open source SQL query engine, PrestoDB and PrestoSQL, and each of them have different software foundations behind them. The Read more…

MongoDB Steps Up Game with MongoDB Cloud

First there was Atlas, MongoDB’s hosted database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering for public clouds. Now the company is launching MongoDB Cloud, an amalgamation of a range of MongoDB products and services that includes At Read more…

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