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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs. .”

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. All three of them experienced relational database scalability issues when developing web applications at their company. Both realized they were solving horizontal scalability problems again. MongoDB Inc.

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Jiko banks $40M in Series B funding to offer companies a way to park their cash in T-bills

TechCrunch

But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. million since its 2016 inception. Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. In 2020, Jiko made headlines by being the first fintech to acquire a nationally regulated U.S.

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Enterprise Storage Arrays and NVMe

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

The hot topic in storage today is NVMe, an open standards protocol for digital communications between servers and non-volatile memory storage. NVMe was designed for flash and other non-volatile storage devices that may be in our future. However, PCIe has limited scalability.

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Austin-based Fetch Package secures $60M in equity & debt after tripling ARR in 2020

TechCrunch

Michael Patton founded Fetch in May 2016 after being frustrated by having packages lost at the apartment community in which he was living. . “I We expect e-commerce delivery volume to continue to grow for the foreseeable future and Fetch is the only scalable solution available to multifamily operators,” he said. .

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EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps

TechCrunch

Driven by a lack of scalability with legacy solutions, they’re looking for modern systems — including cloud-based systems — that support scaling while reducing costs and accelerating development. . Unsurprisingly, companies are increasingly embracing alternatives to relational databases, like NoSQL.