Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
February 20, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: February 20, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is offering Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replicas, a new capability for improved query performance and high availability for enterprise-scale time series workloads on AWS. Read Replicas are the latest addition to InfluxData's collaboration with AWS to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a managed offering announced last year for AWS developers to run open source InfluxDB natively on AWS without the overhead of self-management.
Microsoft announced its latest breakthrough, Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture. The company expects it will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.
StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is announcing that StorMagic SvHCI—the company's full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) software solution—has been tested and validated with three Supermicro IoT SuperServers.
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing two significant advancements for the VAST Data Platform, unveiling Block storage functionality for the VAST DataStore, as well as the new VAST Event Broker. These latest capabilities aim to better accommodate the complex data needs of today's technology—such as analytics and AI—while delivering a universal, multiprotocol storage platform.