Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
February 1, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: February 1, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
fuseproject, Yves Béhar's multidisciplinary design firm, and startup Functionland are partnering to offer FxBlox, a physical hardware device that allows users to store fully encrypted data, files, and photos—tapping into secure, user-owned, decentralized storage.
Neurelo, Inc., the Cloud Data API innovator, is emerging from stealth to debut its data access platform designed to solve the layer of issues that exist between the developer-built software and its underlying database. Backed by $5 million in seed funding—led by Foundation Capital with participation from Cortical Ventures, Secure Octane Investments, and Aviso Ventures—Neurelo's Cloud Data API Platform empowers developers to easily build modern cloud apps while overcoming their hardest data challenges, according to the company.
Rockset, the search and analytics database built for the cloud, is unveiling a new instance class that innovates on cost efficiency while continuing to support highly intensive compute workloads. Delivering a 30% reduction in compute costs, Rockset's latest instance class—which complements the company's significant innovation momentum—represents a continued commitment toward enabling a wide variety of applications while reducing costs.
Qumulo, the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere, is releasing Superna Data Security Edition for Qumulo, making Superna's industry-leading Ransomware Defender solution available to automate real-time detection of malicious behaviors, false-positives, and other events consistent with ransomware access patterns for both SMB and NFS files.