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Improving Distributed System Data Integrity with Amazon S3 Conditional Writes
AWS recently announced support for conditional writing in Amazon S3, allowing users to check for the existence of an object before creating it. This feature helps prevent overwriting existing objects when uploading data, making it easier for applications to manage data.
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Microsoft Expands Azure Data Box Capabilities for Enhanced Offline Data Migration
Microsoft recently announced several capabilities for its Azure Data Box, a service that has been available since 2019 and facilitates offline data migration to Azure. These new capabilities enhance data transfer speed, flexibility, and security, offering organizations more efficient ways to move large datasets to the cloud without relying solely on network bandwidth.
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Redis Improves Performance of Vector Semantic Search with Multi-Threaded Query Engine
Redis, the in-memory data structure store, has recently released its enhanced Redis Query Engine. This comes at a time when vector databases are gaining prominence due to their importance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for GenAI applications. Redis announced significant improvements to its Query Engine, using multi-threading to enhance query throughput while maintaining low latency.
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Stateful Cloud Services at Neon Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs: Q&A with John Spray
At QCon London, John Spray, a storage engineering lead @neon.tech, discussed the often-overlooked complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ carried out an interview.
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Amazon RDS Introduces Faster Storage for High-Performance Database Workloads
AWS has recently introduced support for io2 Block Express volumes on Amazon RDS. Priced as the existing Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io1, the new io2 Block Express volumes are compatible with all database engines and are designed for high-performance, high-throughput, and low-latency database workloads.
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Cost-Effective Solution for Infrequent Data Access and Retention with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier, an online tier designed explicitly for efficiently storing infrequently accessed or modified data while ensuring immediate availability.
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System
During the latest AWS Storage Day event, Amazon announced the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The new open-source file client provides through a file interface the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3, supporting data transfer at up to 100 Gb/second between each EC2 instance and the object storage.
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Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data
At the recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon announced AWS HealthImaging. The new HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare providers to store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at scale.
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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Adds Multishares for Filestore Enterprise
Google Cloud has moved Filestore Enterprise Multishares for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) into general availability. With Filestore Enterprise Multishares, multiple persistent volumes can be packed onto a Filestore Enterprise instance to improve storage utilization and reduce costs.
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Google Cloud Introduces Autoclass for Cloud Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs
Google Cloud recently announced the availability of Autoclass for Cloud Storage, a bucket-level setting that automates the lifecycle management of objects based on their last access time. The new feature simplifies cost optimization for workloads with unpredictable and unknown access patterns.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Seán McCord on Kubernetes Storage Technologies
Kubernetes platform offers a variety of storage systems and which option you choose depends on storage characteristics like scalability, performance, and cost. Seán McCord from Sidero Labs spoke on Wednesday at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the tools the teams can use to evaluate when to use which storage solution.
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AWS Adds VMware Cloud on AWS Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS and VMware recently announced VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Designed for data-intensive VMware workloads, the new option is a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS, reducing storage costs and simplifying migration to the cloud for enterprises.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.