Today MemVerge announced what it sees as the next big thing for in-memory computing, MemVerge Big Memory Computing. Big Memory Computing is being hailed as a new technology category that will allow all applications to run in memory versus a strict range of workloads. This new technology combines persistent memory hardware and memory machine software

Today, Aerospike announced that they are working on the fifth major release of their NoSQL database, Aerospike Database 5. Aerospike was founded in 2009 under the name Citrusleaf. In 2012 the company changed their name to match the name of their NoSQL database. Aerospike Database remains the company’s main product, despite being open-sourced under the

Today, StorCentric released the Nexsan E-Series 32F storage appliance. StorCentric was founded in August 2018. In the less than two years it has existed, it has gobbled up four storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that they would be acquiring storage companies Drobo and Nexsan. Soon afterwards, in June 2019,

Today Dell EMC announced its new midrange storage array, Dell EMC PowerStore. PowerStore is said to be up to seven times faster and three times more responsive than the company’s previous midrange storage entries. This is in part from its end to end NVMe architecture, support for dual-ported Intel Optane SSDs, and up to 32Gb

Today, Backblaze added new APIS to their B2 Cloud Storage. The company describes the APIs as “S3 Compatible,” meaning applications written for S3 should now work on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage without any new code development. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup

Red Hat had its annual summit this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. Red Hat and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include OpenShift 4.4, OpenShift Virtualization, Advanced Cluster Management for

Today, VAST Data released Universal Storage 3.0. Universal Storage is VAST’s name for their disaggregated, shared everything, (DASE) all-flash server storage architecture. VAST Data (yes, all the letters in VAST are capitalized) released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding

Today, Alluxio announced a plan to collaborate with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Today, Igneous announced that it plans to release a new feature for its DataDiscover software in the middle of next month. Igneous DataDiscover helps teams see and analyze the usage of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). We covered the announcement of Igneous’s first product in 2016. Igneous has two main products, both related to data management and