Could NAND capacity replace HDDs by 2029?
Analysis. One of the most important discussions in the storage industry has been opened up by Pure Storage saying no new hard disk drives (HDDs) will be sold after...
NetApp renews DreamWorks Animation deal as latest film flops
NetApp has renewed a long-term relationship with customer DreamWorks Animation, including co-engineering and being its preferred cloud services provider.
VAST Data may have scooped up Pixar recently but NetApp has...
Disk drive shipment numbers take a dive
Preliminary hard disk drive shipment numbers for the second 2023 quarter are down, according to TrendFocus, with Toshiba losing market share to Seagate and Western Digital.
The research house sends...
ExaGrid claims it’s heading towards 4,000 customers
Purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor ExaGrid had claimed a record-breaking second quarter, saying its customer numbers are heading to 4,000 and that it pulled in $19 million from new...
Seagate inks sale and leaseback deal for Colorado campus
Seagate is selling and then leasing back its Longmont, CO, campus for $101.5 million.
The hard disk drive maker opened up in Longmont in 1999 and has a research and...
Storj claims edge in reducing carbon footprint
Decentralized storage provider Storj has released a research paper claiming its technology can reduce the carbon footprint of storing a TB of data by 66-83 percent when compared against...
Storage news ticker – June 28
Aerospike, focused on real-time data, is now a member of the HPE Complete program which allows customers to acquire Aerospike software directly from HPE and its authorized partners. The...
Hitachi Vantara taps CTERA’s cloudy file services
Hitachi Vantara has entered an OEM deal with CTERA for file and data management services with the Hitachi Content Platform storing the data.
CTERA provides edge-to-core-to-cloud global file system and...
Seagate bringing HAMR and online drive regeneration to Corvault
The Seagate Corvault product is getting online autonomous drive regeneration and a HAMR capacity leap.
Corvault is Seagate’s smart JBOD chassis with up to 106 3.5-inch drives, and its firmware...
Storage news roundup – 19 June
Open-source data integrator Airbyte has launched checkpointing, column selection, and schema propagation features, now available on both Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte Open Source. By creating a saved state of...
Western Digital HAMR tech ’18 months away’
Western Digital could have HAMR disk drives in volume production in 12 to 18 months, according to the company's CFO. He also denied that SSDs will make HDDs obsolete.
This...
Seagate CFO dishes dirt on HAMR capacities
Seagate CFO Gianluca Romano openly talked about the company’s HAMR disk drive capacity point schedule at a Bank of America 2023 Global Technology conference.
He revealed actual capacity points, timing...