On the opening day of Oracle CloudWorld, Oracle announced an improved MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse with query performance that is touted to be 17x faster than Snowflake and 6x faster than Redshift based on a 400 TB workload. According to Oracle, MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse can load 400 TB of data from object storage 8X faster than Redshift

Seagate has unveiled the Lyve Cloud Analytics platform, a comprehensive cloud-based analytics solution that features storage, compute, and analytics. It is specifically designed to help Lyve Cloud customers lower their total cost of ownership and speed up time to value with their DataOps and machine learning operations.

VAST Data announced the release of its latest Universal Storage software platform that addresses a secure, sustainable hyperscale data infrastructure and includes Ceres DBox support for a next-gen NVMe enclosure continuing to leverage NVIDIA’s BlueField DPUs. We covered VAST Data’s Ceres launch in great detail earlier this year.

IBM is extending its data resilience portfolio by introducing the IBM Diamondback Tape Library, with over 27PB of capacity that can be deployed very quickly. The new solution offers a high-density archival storage system that is physically air-gapped to protect against ransomware and other cyber threats. The IBM Diamondback Tape Library, with increased data density

Oracle and NVIDIA took advantage of Oracle CloudWorld to announce expanding their longstanding alliance with a  multi-year partnership that focuses on helping customers solve business challenges with accelerated computing and AI. This collaboration brings the full NVIDIA accelerated computing stack, from GPUs to systems to software, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Pliops used the 2022 OCP Global Summit to introduce XDP-Rocks, its new accelerated Key-Value store that boosts RocksDB performance by 20x. Designed to overcome architecture limitations of traditional RocksDB deployment, XDP-Rocks streamlines architecture and eliminates complexities to deliver breakthrough levels of workload performance, scalability, and efficiency.

KIOXIA has announced the expansion of its SSD portfolio with the XD7P Series. This new line of SSDs is purpose-built for hyperscale and general server applications in the new Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S form factor. The XD7P series is KIOXIA’s 2nd generation of E1.S SSDs with Open Compute Project (OCP)

Cisco used the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to highlight its Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 portfolios targeting cloud operators to help transform their infrastructure to meet sustainability goals. New routers and switches are powered by Cisco Silicon One enabling customers to evolve their AI/ML networks by adopting either standard Ethernet or full scheduled

Eaton has announced the North American launch of its Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Rack v3 (ORV3) compatible solutions. It is purpose-built and preconfigured with a focus on the efficient, and scalable delivery of critical power for their data centers seeking to deploy ORV3 racks.