October 29, 2026
News Flashes
Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, is releasing Cloudflare Basin, a data platform for developers and enterprises offering a simpler, more affordable way to build applications powered by their data.
Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) is announcing plans to launch Hitachi Digital Inc. (Hitachi Digital), a new global digital services company, on April 1, 2027—uniting Hitachi's U.S. subsidiaries, GlobalLogic Inc. (GlobalLogic) and Hitachi Digital Services LLC (Hitachi Digital Services) under a single company using the Hitachi brand.
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Oracle announced a new fully managed storage service that brings enterprise-grade NetApp storage natively to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). According to the companies, the service will bring NetApp ONTAP data management capabilities natively to OCI to help organizations simplify the migration and management of critical AI and enterprise workloads in the cloud.
pgEdge, a leading open source Postgres company for agentic AI and enterprise applications, is launching pgEdge Starfleet, a new Postgres cloud database platform built to bridge the gap between enterprise AI prototypes and actual AI production applications.
Think About It
For much of the past decade, cloud storage has been thought of as the inevitable future of enterprise infrastructure. The promise was simple: Eliminate capital expenditures, scale infinitely, and only pay for what you use. For some workloads, that model still makes sense. But as data volumes explode and the economics of infrastructure shift, organizations are beginning to take a closer look at the long-term financial implications of relying primarily on cloud storage.