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ClickHouse Secures $350 Million to Build the Data Backbone for the AI Era
ClickHouse, known for its high-performance columnar database technology, has secured $350 million in Series C funding to address the growing demand for real-time and scalable analytics in the AI era. In a market whe Read more…
Inside the Chargeback System That Made Harvard’s Storage Sustainable
Like many research institutions, Harvard University struggled to manage the rapidly growing storage environment backing its HPC clusters. The university had little visibility into which research projects were consuming s Read more…
Databricks Broadens Data Integration Capabilities with Launch of Lakeflow Connect
Databricks has announced the general availability of Lakeflow Connect, a tool that enables no-code data ingestion from SaaS applications and databases. As part of the launch, the company has introduced connectors fo Read more…
Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data
Public data is the lifeblood of open research and scientific inquiry. But the possibility of losing public datasets--including academic, government, and scientific data generated as part of research--is now spurring seve Read more…
DDN Gooses AI Storage Pipelines with Infinia 2.0
AI’s insatiable demand for data has exposed a growing problem: storage infrastructure isn’t keeping up. From training foundation models to running real-time inference, AI workloads require high-throughput, low-latenc Read more…
News In Brief
MCP Roundup: Why Database Providers Are Rebuilding Around Context
The shift from experimental AI prototypes to real-world, integrated systems is exposing a critical gap in enterprise data infrastructure: context. As businesses aim to deploy AI agents that act autonomously and intellige Read more…
State of DNA Storage Discussed in New Whitepaper
The DNA Storage Alliance, which is part of the SNIA community, last month released a technical whitepaper detailing the progress so far in creating DNA storage, when we might see commercial DNA storage offerings, and the Read more…
Promethium Wants to Make Self Service Data Work at AI Scale
AI keeps getting smarter, but most companies are still waiting on data. No matter how powerful the technology gets, it’s the fragmented and slow-moving data that continues to drag things down. Now, with AI agents start Read more…
TigerData Unveils Tiger Lake to Bridge the Gap Between Postgres and Lakehouse
TigerData today introduced Tiger Lake, an architecture it calls “the missing layer between Postgres and the lakehouse for the age of agents.” The release is part of the company’s effort to make it easier for develo Read more…
With $20M in Seed Funding, Datafy Advances Autonomous Cloud Storage Optimization
As cloud storage costs quietly drain enterprise budgets, most solutions still require too much effort and cost for too little return. Misaligned capacity and rigid scaling policies are just some of the issues that inflat Read more…
This Just In
Sept. 2, 2025 — Siemens is collaborating with Snowflake to help manufacturers unlock new levels of operational efficiency, scale and AI-driven insights. The collaboration enables mutual customers across the globe to connect their operational technology (OT) data from the shop floor with information technology (IT) data, such as supply chain management and financial data. Read more…
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 2, 2025 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and MCNC, the non-profit operator of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today announced a new partnership to bring secure cloud enclaves and advanced data services to community anchor institutions throughout North Carolina. Read more…
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 28, 2025 — EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading sovereign AI and data company, announced new innovations for data lakehouse architectures and application modernization during Supermicro’s annual Open Storage Summit (OSS). Read more…
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2025 — Lightbits Labs (Lightbits), inventor of the NVMe over TCP storage protocol, announced today that it will showcase its disaggregated, software-defined storage for high-performance block workloads in OpenShift environments at upcoming Red Hat Connect events in North America. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 19, 2025 — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced the availability of Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store that provides applications and services for use on Azure. Read more…