Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
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Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Storage news ticker – January 13
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Data protector Catalogic Software announced general availability for its latest DPX software, with enhancements to agentless backups for virtual environments, cloud archiving, and...
Storage news ticker – January 10
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According to the UK Guardian, EU police agency Europol will have to delete at least 4PB of...
Abbamatic trio sings MAMR mia – here we go again
A three-way collaboration between Showa Denko, TDK and Toshiba has resulted in a demonstration of MAMR recording technology showing that 30+ terabyte disk drives are possible.
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
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Storage news ticker – December 22
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iXsystems has introduced TrueCharts, a first app catalog for TrueNAS SCALE, its scale-out storage and hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It includes Kubernetes for deploying...
Storage news ticker December –14
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Ascend.io says Snowflake users can put workloads on autopilot with Ascend’s Data Automation Cloud. This automates data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability...
Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the...
Learning from history: QNAP’s ULINK AI tool predicts SATA drive failures
Taipei-based QNAP has a machine learning-based SATA disk and SSD drive failure predictor for its NAS systems that means you can replace the drives before they fail.