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VAST Data Unveils New Data Platform Architecture for the AI Factory

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.

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  • Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.
  • Building on NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU ) technology, VAST Data’s parallel system architecture makes it possible to disaggregate the entirety of VAST’s operating system natively into AI computing machinery, transforming supercomputers into AI data engines.
  • Moreover, by removing multiple layers of x86 hardware and networking from VAST’s network-attached Data Platform infrastructure, this new AI factory architecture dramatically reduces the cost, footprint, and power associated with AI data services.
  • Enhancing Zero-Trust Security: This new AI factory architecture ensures that data and data management remain protected and isolated from host operating systems.

Zero Prime Ventures Raises Second Fund to Back Even More Engineer-Founders From Company Inception

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Zero Prime Ventures (previously Data Community Fund), the firm that writes the first checks for day zero engineer-founders, today announced its second fund as well as the addition of new Partner Yang Tran .

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  • Zero Prime Ventures (previously Data Community Fund), the firm that writes the first checks for day zero engineer-founders, today announced its second fund as well as the addition of new Partner Yang Tran .
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240319152582/en/
    Partners Pete Soderling and Yang Tran of Zero Prime Ventures.
  • In fact, we're in the thick of it already,” said Pete Soderling, founder of Zero Prime and the Data Council community.
  • “He was there with us from the beginning of the company and has been instrumental to our success.”
    To learn more about Zero Prime, please visit zeroprime.vc .

Voltron Data Acquires Claypot AI As It Unlocks the Power of the Largest Datasets for AI

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voltron Data , the company accelerating modular and composable data analytics systems, today announced that it has acquired Claypot AI, a real-time AI platform startup.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voltron Data , the company accelerating modular and composable data analytics systems, today announced that it has acquired Claypot AI, a real-time AI platform startup.
  • Voltron Data processes large batch workloads on GPUs today and will be incorporating Claypot AI's real-time capabilities on GPU.
  • Organizations at the forefront of AI are constrained by data preprocessing on CPUs - ETL, feature engineering and transformation are key parts of AI/ML.
  • They cannot ramp up AI capabilities efficiently because they cannot afford to build out big data CPU clusters fast enough.

Dremio Cloud Now Available for Microsoft Azure

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Dremio , the easy and open data lakehouse, today announced the public preview of Dremio Cloud for Microsoft Azure.

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  • Dremio , the easy and open data lakehouse, today announced the public preview of Dremio Cloud for Microsoft Azure.
  • "Dremio Cloud for Microsoft Azure is the service we have been looking for.
  • Dremio Cloud for Azure provides seamless federated data access across organizations’ environments, both in Azure and on-premises.
  • "Dremio Cloud for Microsoft Azure is a game-changer for organizations seeking self-service analytics with flexibility in a SaaS environment.

F5 Provides Cost and Performance Enhancing Technology in Support of Open Source Telemetry Project

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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In a development partnership with ServiceNow, F5 has contributed approximately 40,000 lines of code to double the compressibility of the OpenTelemetry Protocol .

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  • In a development partnership with ServiceNow, F5 has contributed approximately 40,000 lines of code to double the compressibility of the OpenTelemetry Protocol .
  • Apache Arrow is an open source technology enhancing big data, analytics, and machine learning used to provide standardized representations of structured and semi-structured data in a more actionable, digestible format and promote advanced telemetry capabilities.
  • For many organizations, transporting and processing such data efficiently accounts for a significant portion of the cost associated with telemetry pipelines.
  • “Through this work with F5, we’re continuing to execute on what enterprises need—the ability to ship more data at a lower cost.”

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Clustered to Deliver Time Series Analytics for On-Premises and Private Cloud Deployments

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
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InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Clustered , its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.

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  • InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Clustered , its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.
  • With the release of InfluxDB Clustered, InfluxData completes its commercial product line developed on InfluxDB 3.0 , its rebuilt database engine optimized for real-time analytics with higher performance, unlimited cardinality, and SQL support.
  • InfluxDB Clustered is the evolution of InfluxDB Enterprise, InfluxData’s long-standing enterprise software product for on-premises and private cloud environments.
  • Together, InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated and InfluxDB Clustered give enterprises multiple options in how they manage and scale time series workloads, whether in the cloud, in their own environment, or in combination for hybrid environments.

Bloomberg Wins Superuser Award in Recognition of Outstanding Use, Support of Open Infrastructure

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- OPENINFRA SUMMIT — The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) announced today that Bloomberg is the winner of the Superuser Award, which recognizes organizations that have used open infrastructure to improve their business while contributing back to the OpenInfra community. Representatives of the Bloomberg compute engineering team received the 2023 Superuser Award during keynotes at the OpenInfra Summit, the annual international gathering of the people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and 30+ other technologies.

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  • Open infrastructure plays a pivotal role in enabling Bloomberg to rapidly stand up on-premise cloud infrastructure across the globe to accommodate its growth.
  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- OPENINFRA SUMMIT — The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) announced today that Bloomberg is the winner of the Superuser Award, which recognizes organizations that have used open infrastructure to improve their business while contributing back to the OpenInfra community.
  • In addition to providing financial support to the OpenInfra Foundation, Bloomberg launched this year a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Fund .
  • "I am excited to welcome Bloomberg into the esteemed group of Superuser Awards recipients, which now includes more than 15 global organizations innovating with open infrastructure."

InfluxData Unveils Future of Time Series Analytics with InfluxDB 3.0 Product Suite

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced expanded time series capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of InfluxDB 3.0 , its rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics.

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  • InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced expanded time series capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of InfluxDB 3.0 , its rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics.
  • InfluxData also announced InfluxDB 3.0 Clustered and InfluxDB 3.0 Edge to give developers next-gen time series capabilities in a self-managed database.
  • “InfluxDB 3.0 is a major milestone for InfluxData, developed with cutting-edge technologies focused on scale and performance to deliver the future of time series,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData.
  • InfluxData also announced the general availability of InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated, its latest cloud product based on InfluxDB 3.0 intended for large-scale time series workloads.

Dremio Hosts Its Annual Subsurface LIVE Conference With Virtual and In-Person Offerings

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, announced it will host its annual Subsurface LIVE conference on March 1 – 2, 2023.

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  • Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, announced it will host its annual Subsurface LIVE conference on March 1 – 2, 2023.
  • The highly anticipated Subsurface LIVE 2023 will bring together esteemed data architects and distinguished data engineers to explore the latest open source innovations, drive best practices, and share real-world use cases!
  • Confirmed speakers for this can’t-miss industry conference include astronomer Julien Le Dem, Shopify’s Marc Leforet, Tabular’s Ryan Blue and Morgan Stanley’s Supreet Kaur.
  • Founded in 2020, this is the first year the conference will offer an in-person attendee experience.

Voltron Data Named One of the Hottest Big Data Startups of the Year

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Thursday, January 5, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voltron Data, the company accelerating standards in data analytics and the largest corporate contributor to Apache Arrow, today announced that it has been named one of the 10 hottest big data startups of 2022 by CRN: https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/the-10-hottest-big-data-startup...

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  • “This year businesses and organizations have sought to leverage data and data analytics to obtain the visibility that will help them navigate rapidly changing business conditions.”
    Voltron Data is committed to developing open source standards for data, unlocking the untapped potential in the data analytics industry.
  • Through these standards, customers can interchange and process massive datasets between the applications and tools they already use and love.
  • June: Voltron Data hosted The Data Thread conference to showcase the latest innovations around Apache Arrow and the Arrow ecosystem with speakers from more than 40 organizations.
  • "Voltron Data is uniquely positioned to support large-scale enterprise and industry adoption of these open standards.”