Opinion: Online disk archives are just wrong
A question: what’s the difference between nearline disk storage and an active archive system only using disk drives? The answer is none.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word archive thus:...
Ahana: Lakehouses need community-governed SQL
It’s not just any old SQL lakehouses need, but open community source SQL, according to Ahana CEO and co-founder Steven Mih, a member of the governing board of the...
StorONE reshuffles executive team
Multi-purpose storage system supplier StorONE has made some exec changes.
Chief revenue officer Chris Noordyke has been promoted to general manager, and Jenn Null, head of demand generation, is now...
Having an efficiency standard like SNIA’s is good. But what about public cloud?
Comment: The Emerald energy initiative from the SNIA holds great promise to better measure storage efficiency and lower carbon emissions, but it's missing a public cloud storage element, and...
Storage news ticker – December 15
Apache Cassandra v4.1 is a milestone release that's mainly a feature update geared toward preparing for the major changes for developers in 5.0. Significant core services changes have been...
Backblaze pours cold water on immersion cooling for most disk drive setups
Iceotope has demonstrated immersion cooling of disk drives and reckons it could enable fewer drive failures and lower total cost of ownership. A Backblaze technologist isn't convinced.
Backblaze, which provides...
Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3
Blocks and Files talked to Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of cloud storage supplier Backblaze, well known for providing helpful reports detailing reliability statistics on the drives used in...
Backblaze predicts HDD prices will fall to 1¢/GB by mid-2025
Disk drive price falls in $/GB terms are continuing at a slower rate than before but are set to reach one US cent per GB, according to Backblaze.
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Pure talks up all-flash in sustainability report as datacenter world awaits regulation
Pure Storage has released a sustainability report claiming its products can help datacenters use less electricity, pressing the pressure points of customers that want to hit carbon emissions targets...
UUID
UUID - Every disk drive has a UUID, a Universal Unique Identifier, which is a 128-bit hexadecimal number, generated buy a standard method, and used to identify objects or...
Xinnor CEO on its high-speed RAID software and disks, DPUs, ZFS, ZNS, SMR and...
Blocks & Files wanted to look more deeply into Xinnor’s claims about its faster-than-RAID-hardware software for NVMe SSDs, xiRAID, particularly in light of its performance tests results. We questioned Dmitry...
Arcitecta promises data recovery for billions of files in seconds or less
Australia-based Arcitecta has developed a product which provides continuous inline data protection for files and objects with zero RTO and near zero RPO, and rollback in milliseconds to any...