Panasas pivots to SaaS under VDURA brand
Legacy parallel file system supplier Panasas is exiting the hardware biz and embracing the public cloud as it rebrands itself…
HPE launches cost-effective storage system for HPC and AI
HPE has built a downsized ClusterStor supercomputer storage array for entry-level and mid-range HPC and AI compute clusters. Update. C500…
Disk failure rates in datacenters are falling, says Backblaze
Cloud storage and data backup firm Backblaze has published the latest annual failure rates (AFRs) of the disk drives it…
Seagate pushes back against SSD dominance claims
HDD maker Seagate wants us to understand three truths about the myth of SSDs replacing disk drives: SSD prices will…
Storage news ticker – May 1
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: "Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead…
A guide: The ‘best’ storage devices for the main applications
A recently published guide has listed what it says are the best storage devices for multiple uses. The guide, from…
Dell pumps power higher for PowerProtect products
Dell has added faster PowerProtect appliances, enabled PowerProtect to back up all-flash PowerMax arrays, and introduced an AI copilot to…
WD CEO: 'Clearly, HDD plays a big role in the AI storage life cycle'
Western Digital’s third quarter results were boosted by a strong rise in disk revenues along with increased demand for SSDs.…
Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline…
Quantum introduces all-flash deduping backup target appliances
Quantum has added two all-flash appliances to its deduping backup target product set. The T10-60 and T210-120, in 1RU chassis,…
Storage news ticker - 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data…
Kioxia plans IPO to tackle $5.8B debt amid industry shakeups
NAND and SSD manufacturer Kioxia is preparing an IPO to recapitalize itself as payment of a ¥900 billion ($5.8 billion)…
Leil Storage trumpets green ‘hyperscaler’ backup for on-prem environments
Leil Storage, a startup owned by Estonian storage systems builder DIAWAY, is extending its sustainability credentials in the second half…
Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and…
Storage news ticker – April 11
Reuters reports that AWS has lost an S3 and Dynamo DB patent infringement case brought by Kove IO. The jury…
Bring down the HAMR: Multi-layer disk tech could triple storage capacity
Researchers from Japan and Seagate have demonstrated a multi-layer disk drive recording method that could double or triple disk drive…
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB…
Storage news ticker – March 21
An AWS blog explains how you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This makes it easier…