The partners say they will voyage into data lakes, accelerate analytics projects, and reduce cycle times.

Databricks takes aim at the swamp monsters lurking in data lakes.

"More than ready" might have been Commvault's tagline at this week's Go event, but company executives showed a particular liking to the word "simple."

Ransomware attacks shot up 500% in the last year with damage costs expected to soar up to $11 billion in the coming year.

Commvault GO kicked off with the launch of a new cloud-native data protection venture called Metallic.

The offering features a hybrid and multi-cloud file backup tool that enables long-term retention with insight to store, protect, and manage unstructured data.

Datadog Barks Back to Cisco’s $7B Offer, Fetches $648M in IPO: GitLab Inhales $268M Series E, Valuation Hits $2.75B; plus the latest VC/M&A news from September.

Karen Walker joined Intel as SVP and CMO; Equinix welcomed Justin Dustzadeh as CTO; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

"I want to make it unequivocally clear that Rubrik is not for sale," wrote Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha amid reports that the company is looking for a buyer.

With the addition of its cloud offerings, Yellowbrick offers enterprise customers a platform to run workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or both.

The partnership aims to simplify data management on cloud-scale architectures through policy-based automation, linear scalability, and cloud mobility.

Splunk unveils data-to-everything platform, a VC arm, and new partner initiatives, to "remove the barrier between data and action," said Susan St. Ledger.

Cloudian announced the launch of Edgematrix, its edge analytics platform that will use HyperStore as a foundation for AI processing of large-scale data sets.

Pure Storage kicked off its annual Accelerate event with new hybrid cloud capabilities, an expanded all-flash storage product line, and improved AI solutions.

The update includes SCM as a storage tier, dual port Intel Optane drives in support of NVMe-oF, as well as integrations with VMware, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

Here are some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from August.

Its namesake cloud data integration platform aims to address ingestion variables.

Chris Kozup returned to Aruba Networks as CMO; Mike Sicoli bids farewell to GTT; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

"This acquisition demonstrates how Commvault is leading the way towards the intersection of storage and data management," said Sanjay Mirchandani, Commvault CEO

Quest Software unveiled Foglight Evolve, which features three new product lines: Foglight Evolve Cloud, Foglight Evolve Operate, and Foglight Evolve Monitor.

Datadog is set to run in the tech IPO pack after it filed a $100 million S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] on Friday.

Open Compute Project (OCP) certified storage equipment is set to take a bigger bite of the market, according to a new report from IHS Markit.

Veritas announced availability of its Enterprise Data Services Platform for VMware environments running on-premises, on devices, or in any of the major public clouds.

Druva added two new cloud services: a multi-tier intelligent data storage technology for AWS and disaster recovery for enterprise workloads.