ASF’s flagship conference helps spur future innovations across ASF projects by uniting both code and non-code contributors Wilmington, DE, July 23, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced the schedule for its…
One of the reasons that MinIO is so performant is that we do the granular work that others will not or cannot. From SIMD acceleration to the AVX-512 optimizations we have done the hard stuff. Recent developments for the ARM CPU architecture, in particular Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE), presented us…
This post initially appeared on The New Stack. For a few years there, the term “private cloud” had a negative connotation. But as we know, technology is more of a wheel than an arrow, and right on cue, the private cloud is getting a ton of attention and it is…
The word "decision-maker" likely makes you immediately think of "C-suite" or "executive." But nowadays, we’re all decision-makers. Whether you're a banker or a blogger, you have important decisions on your plate and need accurate insights to make them. With the rise of SaaS and self-serve data platforms, organizations are constantly…
By: Shane Curcuru, Board Chair In the spirit of open communications that is core to our ethos, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is announcing we are evolving our corporate logo and brand system to represent the “community over code” ethos we are known for, and ensure people feel welcome and…
In modern datalake architectures, the semantic layer plays a crucial role by adding meaningful context to the data that would otherwise be lost. This layer acts as a bridge between the raw, uncurated data in the processing layer of the modern datalake (data warehouses and query engines) and the tools…
Running AI data storage infrastructure in the cloud is very expensive. Not only is it expensive to store the data, but everytime your applications consume the data from your AI data storage infrastructure you get charged ingress and egress fees. At one point when cloud was new and the scale…
The Modern Datalake is one-half data warehouse and one-half data lake and uses object storage for everything. The use of object storage to build a data warehouse is made possible by Open Table Formats OTFs) like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake, which are specifications that, once implemented, make…
As enterprises in critical industries such as banks, healthcare, oil and gas repatriate their data from the cloud, there are sometimes some things they need to do the “old school” way because there is simply no other way. One of these is Bastion hosts. It doesn’t matter whether you have…
Redpanda has always emphasized strong data durability guarantees as a hallmark of its design. However, the usage of streaming data platforms has broadened to a point where not every stream leads to a system-of-record. Customers have told us they want more flexibility in choosing between these durability guarantees and higher…