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Two years ago I announced that InfluxData was working on a new core for InfluxDB, a project we named InfluxDB IOx. InfluxDB IOx is a cloud-native, real-time, columnar database optimized for time series data built in Rust on top of Apache Arrow and DataFusion. Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform.

Rebuilt and reimagined storage engine built on open source project InfluxDB IOx delivers faster queries, unlimited time series, and introduces SQL for writing queries and BI tool support.

By 2025, it's expected that the amount of data produced per day will be 463 exabytes. 1 exabyte is 1 million terabytes or 1 billion gigabytes—that's a lot of data! Safely storing data ensures that all the knowledge you gather over the years is retained and maintained. Proper storage is super vital for all individuals, businesses, and other organizations. There are many ways to store data, from old-fashioned paper records to modern digital methods.

Nothing screams “corporations run the world” quite like Black Friday. A holiday built on shopping, bargain hunting, and tailgating at the mall at five in the morning. There really is nothing quite like Black Friday. And though Internxt loves bashing on the powers that be, we too are offering a wild Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal this year. So to celebrate the shop-till-you-drop shenanigans, we’ve put together a list of the best Black Friday memes on the internet.

Free and open-source apps for remote workers provide an alternative to costly and often less transparent commercial software. Many incredible free and open-source applications can significantly improve your remote work experience. Open-source applications are programs that you can run, modify, and redistribute for any purpose. Such applications are public, and everyone has access to their source code. These apps and software are commonly referred to as FOSS.

Big name or underdog? Privacy or convenience? Proton Drive or Google Drive? Google Drive has a long history and is the usual top dog when it comes to online cloud storage and collaboration. Proton Drive is new, and rather than try to go toe-to-toe with Google in size, it has instead chosen to take the high road and focus on privacy. Both services have plenty going for them, and both clouds have a few dark spots that could be improved.

Control over our privacy is something we should all be entitled to. Privacy is a human right after all and that should be the case whether we’re on or offline. Good news is many countries around the world have introduced privacy acts for both online and offline data use over the recent years. With the internet growing astronomically in such a short period of time, more concern than ever has been placed on user data and how it's gathered, stored, and used by those who acquire it.

With all the new online products and services coming out, you see a lot of buzzwords used to describe them—private, anonymous, secure, open-source, safe, encrypted. News flash, words have meanings, and the terms used to describe something can give you a big hint to what that thing does well. Privacy and anonymity, or "private" and "anonymous," are two words that are frequently used interchangeably to mean no one is watching you or knows what you are up to.

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over the last decade, more and more organisations have turned to open-source solutions such as Ceph running on commodity hardware.