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MinIO Debuts DataPod, a Reference Architecture for Exascale AI Storage
The number of companies planning to store an exabyte of data or more is skyrocketing, thanks to the AI revolution. To help streamline the storage buildouts and calm queasy CFO stomachs, MinIO last week proposed a referen Read more…
Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?
A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…
Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the 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…
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…
News In Brief
Apache Cassandra 5.0 Brings Major Updates with Enhanced Indexing and AI Capabilities
The Apache Cassandra Community has announced the general availability of Apache Cassandra 5.0, offering better data efficiency, integration of GenAI functionality, and improved performance. Apache Cassandra is a dis Read more…
InfluxData Enhances InfluxDB 3.0 with Performance Upgrades and Self-Managed Option
InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, announced a series of updates to the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite including new deployment options and observability capabilities. A time series database efficiently handles time-s Read more…
Dremio Unveils New Features to Enhance Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouse Performance
Dremio, a data lakehouse company based in Santa Clara, CA, has announced a significant advancement in data lake analytics. The company claims that the new features and advances to the platform can dramatically accelerate Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey
Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…
This Just In
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 11, 2024 — Oracle has announced new HeatWave capabilities, including innovations to help organizations more easily and securely take advantage of generative AI both in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more…
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 10, 2024 — Crunchy Data, a leading provider of trusted open source Postgres technology and products, today announced the latest release of Crunchy Bridge for Analytics, providing enhanced spatial data analytics capabilities, making it one of the easiest-to-use and most powerful platforms for working with geospatial data. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, 2024 — Elastic, the Search AI Company, announced that its Automatic Import feature now accelerates the migration of custom data sources from legacy logs solutions to AI-driven log analytics. Read more…
NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 5, 2024 — Current deployment of AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning use cases remains limited but diverse, with strong expectations of future growth, according to the 2024 AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning Market Study, part of the Dresner Advisory Wisdom of Crowds series of research. Read more…
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 5, 2024 — The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA), a trade group representing leading companies in the AI data licensing industry, has released a comprehensive position paper on AI data licensing. Read more…