Nexsan launches Unity NV4000 for small and remote deployments
The new Unity 4000 is a flexible, multi-port, straightforward storage array from Nexsan.
The company has a focus on three storage product lines: E-Series block storage for direct-attached or SAN...
Western Digital retools platform business with new gear and SSD ecosystem push
Western Digital has extended its platform chassis business at Computex with a new disk drive box, NVMe SSD box, qualified partner SSDs, and an extended compatibility lab.
The company, before...
Disk drive capacity shipments out to 2030 forecast to rocket upwards
An analyst report says disk drive capacity shipments are orojected to rise steeply bupwards between now and 2030.
This data is included in Tom Coughlin’s latest 174-page Digital Storage Technology...
Western Digital lends RapidFlex tech to Ingrasys for Ethernet SSD box
Western Digital is supplying NVMe PCIe-to-Ethernet RapidFlex bridge technology to Ingrasys, which will manufacture a fast, Ethernet-accessed box of SSDs for edge location use, cloud providers, and hyperscalers.
Taiwan-headquartered Ingrasys...
Sandisk launches fastest gumstick SSD yet
Sandisk just launched the SN8100 from its WD_BLACK range, currently the fastest M.2-format (gumstick) drive available.
It is a PCIe Gen 5 drive and succeeds the PCIe Gen 4...
Newcomer Arcfra lands spot in Gartner’s HCI vendor lineup
Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner’s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software less than a year after launch.
CEO Wenhao...
Huawei unveils full-stack AI data lake platform
Huawei has developed its own data lake software as part of a full-stack approach to providing AI data storage and pipelining for AI training and inference workloads.
This was presented...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Cerabyte is participating in 2025 OCP EMEA Regional Summit, taking place April 29–30 in Dublin, Ireland. It will be putting its ceramic-on-glass storage to the test - by boiling...
WD posts sequential disk revenue decline after splitting off Sandisk
Western Digital reported a 31 percent year-on-year revenue increase in its first incarnation as a disk-drive-only company following its spin-out of the Sandisk NAND and SSD business on February...
Seagate’s spins up disk revenues, though shipments down
Although Seagate's third fiscal 2025 quarter revenues rose almost a third year-on-year, they declined sequentially as supply constraints sent shipments down.
Revenues in the quarter ended March 28 were 30.5...
Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice.
The...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...