Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline high-capacity drive orders. Broadcom has acquired its ASIC assets,...
Quantum introduces all-flash deduping backup target appliances
Quantum has added two all-flash appliances to its deduping backup target product set.
The T10-60 and T210-120, in 1RU chassis, will replace the current DXi mid-range, according to an IT...
Storage news ticker – 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data for almost two years. Cohesity’s DataProtect and Data Cloud...
Kioxia plans IPO to tackle $5.8B debt amid industry shakeups
NAND and SSD manufacturer Kioxia is preparing an IPO to recapitalize itself as payment of a ¥900 billion ($5.8 billion) loan is due in June.
The company is 56.24 percent...
Leil Storage trumpets green ‘hyperscaler’ backup for on-prem environments
Leil Storage, a startup owned by Estonian storage systems builder DIAWAY, is extending its sustainability credentials in the second half of this year by introducing much lower power backup...
Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and storage suppliers are vying to see who has the...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Reuters reports that AWS has lost an S3 and Dynamo DB patent infringement case brought by Kove IO. The jury awarded Kove $525 million. The case took place in...
Bring down the HAMR: Multi-layer disk tech could triple storage capacity
Researchers from Japan and Seagate have demonstrated a multi-layer disk drive recording method that could double or triple disk drive capacity in a proof-of-concept study.
Hard disk drive platters have...
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB and Semantic Kernel's extensible open source SDK for AI...
Storage news ticker – March 21
An AWS blog explains how you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This makes it easier to run near-real-time time-series applications using InfluxDB and open...
Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services
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
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...