Folio Photonics hires engineering VP
Moving the pace of its optical archive technology up a notch, Folio Photonics has hired an engineering VP to build its first commercial product.
Folio Photonics has developed a low-cost...
Infinidat the front runner for enterprise storage innovation, says GigaOm
A GigaOm Radar chart is classifying Infinidat as the leading supplier of innovative primary storage to enterprises, with NetApp heading up the balanced innovation-platform play area.
Analysts Max Mortillaro and...
Western Digital revenue misery continues
Western Digital has reported a drop in revenue of 36 percent annually for the second quarter of the dirve maker's FY23, surpassing its Q1 fall of 26 percent. It’s...
Storage news roundup – January 31
Cyber security and backup storage supplier Acronis has announced a three-year partnership with London's oldest professional football club, Fulham FC. Acronis will provide Fulham with a suite of cyber...
Western Digital quietly producing dual-actuator disk drives
Western Digital is making a dual-actuator disk drive, the DC HS760, two years or more after Seagate introduced its twin-actuator MACH.2 tech with 14TB Exos 2X14 drives.
No public announcement...
NetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure
NetApp is presenting itself as the leading storage innovator compared to Dell and Pure Storage, with charts showing them lagging behind on 22 out of 25 innovations.
It's put forward...
A Western Digital, Kioxia merger? There would be pain points
Comment Against reports of a nearing merger of Western Digital and Kioxia, B&F is reviewing the implications and some of the difficulties that could lie ahead in such a deal.
The...
Seagate reports first loss in years
HDD vendor Seagate recorded a 39 percent drop in revenues for its second fiscal 2023 quarter, chalking it up to an adverse economic environment.
For the quarter ended December 30,...
Dell OneFS 9.5 is a streamer screamer
OneFS 9.5, the latest PowerScale OS version, provides a claimed 55 percent in streaming data access speed plus cyber resiliency improvements.
PowerScale and the prior Isilon scale-out filers are powered...
Iron Mountain on getting rid of storage junk
Given that customers need to dispose of old disk, tape and solid state drives, what problems might they face? We were briefed by Chris Greene, VP and global head...
Toshiba exec says SSDs can never replace HDDs
A Toshiba exec has argued that hard disk drives are essential to store data in several market areas because SSDs are ill-suited to the job, costing more and with...
Data management is still human labor for most Register readers
A Blocks & Files report, based on Register and B&F reader responses to an online questionnaire, shows that automated data management is a long way off.
The report, Data Management...