Storage news ticker – January 19
Data pipeline automation vendor Ascend.io announced an integration that allows users to scale and run sophisticated dbt models in production with a single command, giving data and analytics engineers...
Storage news ticker – January 17
Data intelligence biz Alation has gained accreditation from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore enabling it to sell more effectively to government and large enterprise buyers there.
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Ambedded...
Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives
Seagate is announcing 30-plus TB Exos HAMR disk drives almost five years after aiming for 20 TB HAMR drive shipments in 2019.
Update: Some Exos Mozaic 3+ product details added....
Storage startup births, acquisitions and market exits in 2023
Three interesting storage startups emerged in 2023, seven were bought and a few storage suppliers and products quit the scene. As more storage startups were bought than born, the...
Data protection in 2023 was all about resilience
Recovering from data loss and ransomware are the gifts that keep on giving ... for data protection suppliers, that is.
Update. Dell additions. 18 Jan 2024
Compared to a year...
Where did the VCs invest storage startup dollars in 2023? (Clue: AI)
Venture Capitalists invested $1.3 billion in 17 storage startups in 2023, yet the bulk of that cash injection went to just four businesses that are weaving AI into their...
Storage news ticker – January 9
Dell Technologies' annual Global Data Protection Index finds that the financial impact of cyberattacks has more than doubled, averaging $1.4 million. Highlights from the 2024 report include:
Generative AI and...
Storage news ticker – January 8
Distributed file orchestrator Arcitecta has made predictions for 2024. It says geo-distributed environments will use a compute-to-data model that takes compute algorithms to where data resides without moving data...
Ferroelectric RAM update and Micron
Micron has revealed a substantial interest in Ferro-electric RAM (FeRAM) technology with a paper presented at the December 2023 IEDM event. This could be its Optane storage-class memory replacement.
We...
Storage news ticker – January 4
DataStax 2024 predictions:
AI will become more deeply regulated in the wake of consumer and regulator backlash.
The rise of Dark AI will cause societal and/or business disruption.
AI companies will shake...
StorageX wants to end storage and compute separation… but for AI
Profile: Little-known Chinese startup StorageX has developed a Lake Ti computational storage processor it says enables compute to move to the data, allowing for fast processing of big data...
SSD controller, object and block cloud storage predictions
Storage suppliers predictions generally predict that the supplier’s products will be successful - because they represent the view of the market through the supplier’s own lens. No supplier is...