Cohesity has reached an agreement to acquire Veritas' data protection business. The combined company will be valued at $7 billion, about 6.5 billion euros. CEO Sanjay Poonen told Reuters, "You've got the fastest growth on our side and the best profitably on their side, combined together to be a ... Read more
3 months ago
Large enterprises plan to invest more in data protection over the next 12 months. When choosing an enterprise backup solution, reliability and the protection of cloud-hosted workloads (IaaS and SaaS) are prioritised. This is according to research from Veeam. It is the second consecutive year tha... Read more
3 months ago
AWS will soon withdraw support for database manager Aurora Serverless version 1, ending Amazon's scale-to-zero database. Companies should switch to Aurora Serverless 2 to continue receiving support for the product. However, the new version does not support scale-to-zero. Following the 'scale-to-... Read more
4 months ago
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes Fabric as perhaps the biggest launch of a data product since SQL Server. Indeed, Fabric is intended to provide a new foundation for enterprise data and AI applications. If you have a mountain of quality data as an organization and want to build an AI applica... Read more
4 months ago
The addresses of millions of Dutch citizens are being traded by data companies such as Experian and Focum. The trade might be illegal because the companies do not ask for consent or ensure it is hidden in a general consent form. The Dutch DPA is investigating whether the practices violate the GDPR.... Read more
4 months ago
HDD sales have been in decline for years. Pure Storage stated earlier this year that the end of this ancient storage medium is near, after which many parties made the case for the continued survival of the hard disk drive. Can we ever say goodbye to the HDD, and if so, when? Pure Storage's messa... Read more
4 months ago
Software AG wants to sell its Cumulocity and Trend Miner platforms for IoT management and data analytics. The Alphabet platform might also be sold to an interested party. Software AG is cleaning up its current portfolio considerably. It already recently sold its proprietary DataOps and ingestion... Read more
4 months ago
IBM is paying $2.13 billion (€1.95 billion) for Software AG's StreamSets and WebMethods platforms. The acquisition of the integration platforms should give IBM more opportunities to further focus on AI and hybrid cloud. For example, the arrival of the StreamSets platform should bring more data... Read more
4 months ago
The C-suite is expanding. It’s a term that doesn’t immediately resonate with everyone, but the C-label is of course intended to signify ‘chief’ and serve as the prefix to chief executive officer (CEO), chief operating officer (COO), chief finance officer (CFO), chief technology officer (CTO... Read more
5 months ago
Data is mushrooming. Because data sets are getting bigger (every day) and because we’re seeking to extend the realm and purview of data analytics and data models across increasingly vast and typically ever more distributed data topographies, our ability to evidence reach and scope in data has nev... Read more
5 months ago
