Storage news ticker – July 25
A 45Drives four-part video series, led by Chief Solutions Architect and Ceph Foundation board member Mitch Hall, documents the design, build, tuning, and real-world benchmarking of an all-NVMe Ceph cluster...
Backtracking Amazon DynamoDB: Clumio pushes recovery play
Clumio Backtrack enables partition-level Amazon DynamoDB recovery back to a point in time with no database reconfiguration.
DynamoDB is AWS’ widely-used and fully-managed NoSQL database service. AWS says it serves...
The Iceberg age: StarTree latest to adopt popular table format
Iceberg is becoming the lingua franca of datalake table formats with StarTree the latest supplier to embrace it as a real-time backend.
Open source Iceberg is an open table format...
MASV Express aims to automate complex file workflows without code
Massive file transfer supplier MASV has an upcoming MASV Express product that can automate complex media ingest and delivery processes without coding or any complicated setup.
It can move files...
Storage news ticker – July 22
Adeptia Connect is a business data exchange software moving data between applications, partners, and customers, supporting data integration, application integration, and B2B/EDI processes. It can be single or multi-tenant...
Where to point your RAG: Sourcing proprietary data for LLMs and AI agents
Analysis: There are many places within IT infrastructure that organizations can use to get a single proprietary data source for their large language models and AI agents doing RAG...
Storage news ticker – July 18
AWS said customers can boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts using boot volumes backed by NetApp on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage FlashArray,...
AWS adds vector buckets to S3 to cut RAG storage costs
Vector buckets have been added to AWS S3 object storage to lower the cost of having infrequently accessed vectors stored in Amazon’s OpenSearch Service.
Unstructured data is being seen as...
Veeam lays groundwork for AI agents to vacuum up backup data
Interview: Veeam is developing software to enable large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to trawl through reams of Veeam backup data and analyze it to answer user or...
Datafy banks $14M to slash AWS block storage bills
AWS block storage cost-cutting startup Datafy has secured $14 million in new funding, bringing total investment to $20 million.
Datafy’s background goes back to early all-flash array days and Israeli...
Google Cloud takes a shine to Lustre
Google Cloud Managed Lustre, based on DDN’s EXAScaler software, is now generally available.
This project was first announced in April to enable Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast...
The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience
Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline.
Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully...