cloudnative

Hardware, Media & Entertainment

Affordable and Cloud-Based Data Streaming: The WarpStream Solution

When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. The way they do that is by taking advantage of today’s cloud environment to separate compute from storage using an object storage service like Amazon S3. “When you interact and store data in cloud object storage you get to sidestep all these networking fees that plague these big data systems when they get lifted, shifted into the cloud,” he said. “Based on our experience building the kind of storage system on top of object storage we had built at DataDog, we felt like streaming systems should work the same way. The founders brought some of the folks who helped build Husky to build the new system, and today they have 9 employees.

Ava Patel
March 14, 2024

Startups

Isovalent: The newly sought-after startup acquired by Cisco for its cloud-hosting capabilities and innovative security measures

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. Tetragon is the company’s open source security visibility component. Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of security and collaboration at Cisco said that it is essential for companies to work together where security is concerned. And we need to make sure that we stay open in this market and co-innovate, and I think open source is probably one of the best models to co-innovate with,” Patel said. Cisco has been extremely acquisitive this year with this representing the 11th acquisition by the company, the fifth related to security.