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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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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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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million

TechCrunch

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. Meanwhile its competitors are already supplying power from pretty massive storage projects.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Flash memory and most magnetic storage devices, including hard disks and floppy disks, are examples of non-volatile memory. sets of AI algorithms) while remaining scalable.

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

TechCrunch

Fetch launched its operations in Dallas in February of 2017 with the goal of solving “the package problem” for apartment communities. By the end of 2017, the SaaS company was servicing approximately 2,000 apartments in the Dallas area. The startup, which later moved its headquarters to Austin, has seen impressive growth.

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Will Flash Penetrate Secondary Storage Environments?

IDC

When the first All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) were introduced back in 2011, many enterprises, analysts and established enterprise storage vendors felt that these types of systems would be too expensive for widespread use in the enterprise. Increased device density drops the $/GB cost of that storage.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

Prior to founding AppMap, she founded DevOps security startup Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, and served as chief data officer for Generation Health, later acquired by CVS. If we’re going to integrate with your GitHub and we have to provide some background functions or storage, then those are paid services.”.