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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…

Alluxio Touts 4X Greater GPU Utilization for AI Training

Customers that use the high-speed cache in the new Alluxio Enterprise AI platform can squeeze up to four times as much work out of their GPU setups than without it, Alluxio announced today. Alluxio also says the overall Read more…

News In Brief

Confluent and Databricks Join Forces to Bridge AI’s Data Gap

Enterprise data is scattered across various platforms in different formats across diverse data streams and repositories. This complexity makes it challenging to connect operational and analytical systems, which often rem Read more…

Redgate’s Report Suggests a Year of Consolidation in Database Management

With data volume and complexity continuing to rise rapidly, businesses are striving to achieve greater efficiency by reevaluating their database strategies. Instead of expanding their data stacks, many businesses are pri Read more…

Solidigm Celebrates World’s Largest SSD with ‘122 Day’

Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack. In honor of that massive feat of data, the Read more…

New Funding Fuels Rockfish’s Synthetic Data Expansion

We live in an age of data abundance, where information is generated at an unprecedented rate. While data holds the key to driving innovation, unlocking valuable insights, and transforming industries, organizations often Read more…

Financial Services Struggle to Align Data with AI Goals

In a data-driven world, financial services organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of AI. However, this journey is not without challenges. We know AI has a data problem. Without the right data in the Read more…

This Just In

StorONE and Phison Unveil Storage Platform Designed for LLM Training and AI Workflows

Apr 24, 2025 |

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 — StorONE today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Phison Electronics, a leading innovator in NAND flash technologies. This further engagement builds upon their prior collaboration on high performance, high density storage to now deliver AI-native intelligent, on-premises storage platforms that combine Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ memory extension technology with StorONE’s high-performance storage platform. Read more…

Metomic Introduces AI Data Protection Solution Amid Rising Concerns Over Sensitive Data Exposure in AI Tools

Apr 23, 2025 |

NEW YORK, April 23, 2025 — Metomic, a leader in enterprise data security, today announced the launch of its AI Data Protection Solution – a pioneering offering designed to prevent sensitive business data from being inadvertently exposed through AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Glean, Notion AI, Box AI, and others. Read more…

Snowflake and PostgreSQL Among Top Climbers in DB-Engines Rankings

Apr 18, 2025 |

April 18, 2025 — DB-Engines has shared Q1 analysis of the database industry rankings and top climbers. While Oracle has maintained its top-ranking spot as the most popular database for several years, Redgate is reporting persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake, which has broken through to sixth place for the first time this quarter, overtaking Redis. Read more…

Hammerspace Attracts $100M Backing from Investors Behind NVIDIA, Meta, and Tesla

Apr 16, 2025 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 16, 2025 — Hammerspace today announced that several strategic venture investors, who were early backers of transformative companies like NVIDIA, Meta, Palantir, SpaceX and Tesla, have invested $100 million in new strategic growth capital in Hammerspace. Read more…

Arcitecta Named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Unstructured Data Management

Apr 15, 2025 |

BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia, April 15, 2025 — Arcitecta today announced it has been named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Unstructured Data Management. Read more…

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