The IT Press Tour #62 is back to California

The 62nd IT Press Tour will take place in a few days from June 2 to 6 in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.Topics will be about IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, data management, big data, analytics and storage and of course AI as it is...

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New VC round for Graid Technology

Graid Technology, the leader in GPU-based RAID data protection for NVMe storage, recently announced a new VC round, a series B with $30 million. This round shows a total of $48 million coming from HH-CTBC Partnership, a joint venture fund between Foxconn...

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DAOS, the exascale storage software

DAOS, acronym of Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage, is today an open source project supported by the DAOS Foundation. It powers some of the largest storage clusters on the planet. I invited Johann Lombardi, TSC chair of the foundation, during...

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Quesma unveils in preview its charts

Quesma, a developer of a SQL database gateway, took advantage of its participation of The IT Press Tour in London recently to unveil their Charts service. Surfing on AI and various services it can deliver, Jacek Migdal, CEO, gave us in exclusivity a...

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FerretDB promotes an alternative to MongoDB

MongoDB is hot and appears as a monopoly for Document DB, one of the NoSQL database types available on the market. Founded in 2007, MongoDB, started as 10Gen, developed and promoted an open source approach. With the arrival of Dev Ittycheria as CEO in...

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Quesma promotes database gateways

Quesma, a young Polish software company, joined the recent IT Press Tour in London, organized in parallel with KubeCon. We first discussed with Quesma during the Boston edition last October when we met Hydrolix as Quesma provides a key core component...

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Hydrolix raised $80M Series C

Hydrolix, a fast growing player in the streaming data lake landscape, just announced its new VC rounds, a series C of $80 million for a total of $145 million. The company continues to grow at a rapid scale multiplying the revenue by 8 between the 2 rounds...

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The IT Press Tour #61 will take place at the famous Battersea Power Station

The 61st IT Press Tour will take place next week, April 1st & 2nd, in London, England, exactly at the Battersea Power Station. This area is famous with the Pink Floyd Animals album cover issued in 1977.Topics will be about IT infrastructure, cloud,...

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Recap of the 60th IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, CA

Initially posted on StorageNewsletter March 10, 2025The 60th edition of The IT Press Tour was held in Silicon Valley, CA, end of January. The event provided an excellent platform for the press group and participating organizations to engage in meaningful...

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Some strange changes and behaviors at MinIO

With the recent news and commercial attitude of the MinIO management team, I have some serious doubt on their capability to sign some deals in some domains. We'll see but I'm pretty sure that several people like me share this opinion. We'll learn more...

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