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

It’s a big deal for the partners, who started their relationship in the cloud before announcing plans to move into on-premises facilities last year.

"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."

The move saved Amazon money and improved application performance, said Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for Amazon Web Services.

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.

Primera storage will help the financial firm to reduce its data center footprint and improve its environmental performance.

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.

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

Kubernetes becomes the de facto management plane for Apache Spark jobs running on YARN and Kubernetes within Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

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.

The next phase of composable infrastructure involves 5G networks as a fabric type.

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

Broadcom claims its PEX88000 family of switches are "ideal for high-throughput and low-latency applications such as deep learning and high-performance computing."

VMware rolled out updates to its NSX networking platform including a new analytics engine and load balancer.

Mellanox today introduced a pair of SmartNICs for data center servers and storage systems at VMworld that boast improvements in security, performance, and efficiency for any workload.

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.

In addition to spending billions of dollars buying companies in the lead up to VMworld next week, VMware also updated its Cloud Provider Platform.

Intel revealed its first chipsets designed for artificial intelligence in large data centers.

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