Seagate profits surge as cloud giants snap up HAMR drives
Disk drive giant Seagate saw revenues rise 21 percent year-over-year to $2.63 billion with a $549 million GAAP profit, up 80 percent, as supply-constrained drives met AI-driven demand strength...
How can Lenovo integrate its to-be-acquired Infinidat?
Analysis. Lenovo and Infinidat have been studiously quiet about how Lenovo’s to-be-acquired Infinidat storage will co-exist with Lenovo’s existing OEM’d NetApp ONTAP storage arrays. The Infinidat and NetApp hardware...
Storage News Ticker – Oct 24
Rubrik delivery partner Assured Data Protection (ADP) is itself partnering US headquartered technology services distributor (TSD) Telarus. As a result Telarus will offer Assured’s Rubrik-based data backup and disaster...
Starcloud pitches orbital datacenters as cheaper, cooler, and cleaner
Orbiting datacenters look a lot more feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed.
Startup Starcloud wants to build datacenters...
The end of the disk drive bathtub curve
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the "bathtub curve" effect may be imaginary.
The idea is that disk drives fail either early on in their life or after many years,...
Quantum & Meyrath: Products and processes
The first part of this interview looked at Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath’s career and how it came about that he joined Quantum as its CEO. This next part looks...
Seagate working on Composable Memory Appliance with CXL memory
Seagate and ZeroPoint Technologies demonstrated hardware-accelerated compression within a CXL memory tier at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, CA.
How could disk drive supplier Seagate utilise ZeroPoint’s HW-accelerated...
Storage news ticker – October 15
Broadcom announced its third-generation Tomahawk 6 Davisson (TH6-Davisson) product, the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch – double the bandwidth of any CPO switch available today....
Toshiba demonstrates 12-platter disk drive technology
Toshiba has verified 12-platter disk drive technology, enabling a 20 percent increase in capacity over its 10-platter microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology.
The company currently ships conventionally-recorded MG11 disk drives...
Why did Hugues Meyrath come back to Quantum?
It wasn’t a basket case, Quantum, far from it, but it was certainly struggling on the edge, and had been for a few years when a boardroom shake-up toppled...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Ataccama has announced Data Quality Gates, an extension of its data quality suite that validates data in motion across the data stack. The new capability applies rules in real...
Storage news ticker – October 3
Data protector Acronis announced GA of True Image 2026 with built-in patch management for Windows and a strengthened security engine with AI-based threat detection, anti-ransomware, and malware scanning. Acronis...