Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 31, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 31, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Microsoft and Broadcom are expanding their partnership, unveiling plans to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions on Azure VMware Solution. Customers that own or purchase licenses for VMware Cloud Foundation will be able to use those licenses on Azure VMware Solution, as well as their own data centers, giving them flexibility to meet changing business needs, according to Microsoft and Broadcom.
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Redpanda is acquiring Benthos, a popular open-source stream processing platform that enables enterprises to move, integrate, and perform transformations on streams of data flowing between systems and data sources, making Redpanda a complete and unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate.