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Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services

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Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2." Update. Merrie Williamson hire note added at end of story, 14...

Storage news ticker – March 14

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Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers" which ranks the 500 top startups displaying excellence across...

Huawei MED drive information emerging slowly

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Huawei is developing an archival storage system using magneto-electrical disks (MED), claiming its power draw is similar to a spin-down disk archive. This OceanStor Arctic device first emerged in a...

Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions

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Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the latter. Western Digital, under activist investor engagement from Elliott Management,...

Huawei developing magneto-electric drive for cold storage

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As we wrote in a storage news ticker, Huawei has announced that it has an OceanStor Arctic device for storing archive data. A presentation at MWC24 in Barcelona by Huawei’s...

Storage news ticker – February 28

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German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data in the Azure public cloud's Blob Storage Archive Tier....

Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul

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Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened since then? Hitachi Vantara was the US-based storage and IT...
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Professor Onur Mutlu and team win Huawei OlympusMons award for storage research

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Computer science Professor Onur Mutlu has won a Huawei OlympusMons award for far-reaching research on data placement tech and NAND chips. The OlympusMons awards started in 2019 to recognize and...

Storage news ticker – February 9

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Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...

NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage

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SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based public cloud long-term retention. StorageGRID is NetApp’s S3-based object storage...

Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management

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Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product announced, and advanced optical storage in its roadmap. Rimage describes...

Storage news ticker – February 4

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Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP). MISA members have...