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AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files, a native file system interface on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service offers developers simplicity and CIOs a more unified, cost-efficient data architecture, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 8, 20263 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingCloud Storage

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When finops costs you more in the end

Cloud finops can save you tons of money on cloud spending and return more value to the business. Unfortunately, mistakes are costing companies big time.

By David Linthicum

Feb 21, 2023 4 mins

CareersCloud ManagementCloud Storage

Couchbase’s managed Capella database now on Microsoft Azure

Capella, earlier known as Couchbase Cloud, is already available on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 19, 2023 3 mins

Cloud StorageDatabases

Amazon Omics aims to optimize biological data analysis at scale

The bioinformatics service, made generally available at AWS re:Invent, is designed to help researchers and scientists store and accelerate analysis of genomic and other related biological data types for precision medicine.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 30, 2022 3 mins

AnalyticsCloud StorageData Management

What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses.

By Martin Heller

Apr 29, 2022 9 mins

Cloud StorageData ArchitectureData Science

9 low-rent cloud providers to challenge AWS, Azure, and GCP

Major cloud providers do it all, and usually for a sizable price. If the high cost of cloud computing has you down, one of these smaller cloud services could be a way out.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 18, 2022 7 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud Storage

Kubernetes object storage best practices

Like Kubernetes itself, the underlying object storage should be distributed, decoupled, declarative, and immutable.

By Ugur Tigli

Oct 19, 2021 6 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud StorageDevops

Cloudflare hopes lack of outbound data fees will convert AWS S3 users to its R2 storage service

The internet company is taking on the dominant AWS S3 service with its new object storage option R2 by promising to help avoid costly outbound-data charges.

By Scott Carey

Sep 28, 2021 3 mins

Cloud Storage

3 reasons centralizing your data is a bad idea

Centralizing your data is like painting yourself into a corner. Partition data by services to avoid this common mistake.

By Lee Atchison

Jun 22, 2021 7 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud StorageData Architecture

What is a computational storage drive? Much-needed help for CPUs

As Moore’s Law loses steam, off-loading data compression, data encryption, low-level data data processing, and other heavy-duty computation tasks to storage nodes makes sense. Here’s how that would work.

By Tong Zhang

Apr 22, 2021 9 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud Storage

Using Redis Enterprise in Azure

Microsoft and RedisLabs are collaborating to bring advanced Redis features to Azure, adding new in-memory database tools to Azure’s cache service

By Simon Bisson

Jun 9, 2020 7 mins

Cloud StorageMicrosoft AzureSoftware Development

The state of cloud computing in 2020

As cloud adoption hits another growth spurt, companies are discovering the power of mixing and matching cloud services into solutions that address almost any business need

By Eric Knorr

Jun 8, 2020 5 mins

Cloud ManagementCloud StorageIaaS