Scality adds dynamic data tiering to RING
Scality has added NVMe flash and tiering support to its RING object storage product and extended its integrations at API level with Veeam backup, VMware Cloud Director, and Prometheus...
Micron abruptly cuts DRAM, NAND production
The sales outlook for Micron has worsened so it’s cutting DRAM and NAND wafer starts by 20 percent compared to its prior quarter.
In Micron’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2022...
Seagate doubles 18TB disk’s data transfer speed
Seagate has added a second read/write head to its Exos 16 and 18TB disk drives, more than doubling their data transfer speed.
It dubs this its Mach2 actuator technology, an...
Seagate looks to sell property to cut costs
Disk drive maker Seagate, hit by a market slowdown, is looking to sell then lease back property in California and Colorado.
The company’s revenues were down 35 percent on an...
BackBlaze posts losses, but sales are up
The good ship Backblaze, loaded with cloud and backup storage, grew revenues 27 percent year on year in the third 2023 quarter, beating expectations, but more than doubled its...
Storage news roundup
The SNIA has set up a Blockchain Storage Committee to address the needs of the technical community’s desire to engage in alliance-building and marketplace-driven activities, whereby all interested parties...
Storage news roundup – November 3
Data protector Arcserve has appointed Christian van den Branden as CTO, leading the global research and development group, advancing Arcserve's technology innovation, and driving the strategic direction of the...
Supermicro partnering with GRAID and Qumulo
Supermicro is partnering with GRAID and Qumulo in two separate deals to have customers buy its servers fitted with GRAID’s GPU-powered RAID cards or used to run Qumulo's scale-out...
Backblaze: Buying less reliable disk drives can make financial sense
Backblaze has published its quarterly disk drive reliability stats and explained how buying less reliable drives can be cheaper in the long run.
There is little change from last quarter’s...
Web3 bros form Decentralized Storage Alliance
Web3 cheerleaders Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation have set up the Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) with AMD, Seagate, and EY as founding members.
The alliance says it will create...
Disk drive shipments fall in revenue and capacity
The world's three major disk drive vendors delivered less capacity to customers in the third 2022 quarter than a year ago, and lower revenues from those shipments as the...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has announced better than expected preliminary results for Q3 2022. Revenue is expected to be between $22.0 and $22.1 million versus previous guidance...