NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner
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NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner.
The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Snowflake tethers itself to Iceberg
Cloud data warehouser Snowflake is supporting the Apache Iceberg open table format alongside its own native data table formats.
Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale datasets in...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Starburst CEO: In AI, it’s data access that wins
Interview: Startup Starburst develops and uses Trino open source distributed SQL to query and analyze distributed data sources. We spoke to CEO Justin Borgman about the company's strategy.
A little...
Storage winners and losers in Trump’s tariff-happy world
Analysis Trump’s tariffs will affect US companies with multinational supply chain components and finished products imported to America, and products from foreign suppliers imported to the US. They will...
Storage news ticker – April 4
Cohesity announced it is the first data protection provider to achieve Nutanix's Database Service (NDB) database protection Nutanix Ready validation. It says: "NDB is the market leading database lifecycle management...
Quesma bridges Elasticsearch and SQL, promises faster, cheaper queries
Quesma has built a gateway between Elasticsearch EQL and SQL-based databases like ClickHouse, claiming EQL users can use it to access faster and cheaper stored data sources.
EQL (Elastic Query...
XenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back
XenData has launched an on-prem gateway appliance for moving Windows SMB media files to and from public cloud object storage.
XenData provides storage products, such as on-prem X-Series tape archives...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will...
Prophecy 4.0 brings self-service data prep to Databricks analysts
Databricks data lake analysts can use Prophecy software to build their own data prep pipelines for downstream analytics and AI processing.
Prophecy, which describes itself as a data transformation copilot...
Databricks partners with Anthropic, Palantir on enterprise AI
Datalake supplier Databricks has signed a deal with Palantir, developed a better way to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), and is including Anthropic’s Claude LLMs with its datalake in...