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

Today, Micron announced that an open-source project they’d been working is ready for broader adoption. Micron is calling the project HSE for Heterogeneous-memory Storage Engine. HSE provides a modern back-end for databases and other storage applications.

Today Kingston Digital, Inc. announced yet another new M.2 SSD in what seems to be a new spree of drive announcements. The new drive is the Next-Gen KC2500 NVMe PCIe SSD, an M.2 drive aimed at desktop, workstations and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

The next generation of professional cameras are here, with higher resolutions and more color bit depth than ever before. With all of that comes a lot more data and the need for higher data rates. CFexpress is the next generation of media designed for these cameras, offering astonishing speeds well in excess of 1GB/s in

This week, Cisco has announced the General Availability of Intersight for Pure Storage Flash Array Automation. With this initial integration, Intersight seeks to facilitate infrastructure administrators to automate storage and storage-related virtualization tasks through workflows using the Intersight Workflow Designer. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure management platform that overcomes the

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces, the company’s scalable, highly available and fully-managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the open-source Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, which allows customers to migrate workloads via the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools they currently

Today Commvault announced the launch of NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP). The idea behind SDP is to offer expanded rapid recovery support for critical data across NetApp’s hybrid-enabled storage systems. NetApp SDP is powered by Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery software, hence the launching from Commvault. This marks the continuing partnership of NetApp and Commvault

Today, Canonical announced the release of the latest version of their Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa.” Ubuntu is a popular and well-known Linux operating system (OS) originally forked off of Debian. Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical sixteen years ago in 2004. Canonical focuses on developing and providing support services for Ubuntu in addition