Storage news ticker – October 17
Cohesity said it thinks most ransomware warranties aren't worth the digital paper they are written on (it doesn't offer such guarantees itself). Many cyber security and data recovery firms...
Azure touts elasticated SAN service
Microsoft's Azure cloud is previewing an Elastic SAN service offering high-availability iSCSI-access block storage.
This storage instance is designed, Microsoft said, “for large scale IO-intensive workloads and top tier databases...
Broadcom refreshes connectivity portfolio
Broadcom has updated its range of connectivity products from top-of-rack Ethernet switches down through storage NICs, video offload accelerators, and HBAs to HDD controller SoCs and PreAmps.
The company says...
Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency
Block array supplier Infinidat says a move to 20TB disk drives has enabled it to increase high-end system capacity by more than 70 percent and add more capacity for...
Disk drive market to plunge due to inflation, war and hyperscalers’ already high inventories
TrendFocus is expecting around 39 million disk drives to be shipped in calendar Q3, down 42 percent on the same period a year ago and 14 percent lower than...
Higher capacity disk drives leads to lower unit volumes shipped
TrendFocus data for calendar Q3 disk drive shipments show that about a fifth fewer drives were shipped than a year ago as big cloud buyers moved to 18TB drives.
The industry’s...
Gartner: Flash array revenue to overtake HDD
According to Gartner, all-flash-array revenues will pass disk drive and hybrid array revenue next year and grow to 55 percent of all external storage revenues in 2026.
The research house...
Quantum enters reseller deal for Atempo backup
Quantum is to resell Atempo’s Tina backup software combined with its backup appliances and other hardware in product bundles.
Atempo’s Tina (Time Navigator) provides on-premises and SaaS backup/restore of physical...
Storage upstart Storadera talks about its single sheet price list
Profile: Amazon S3 and other S3 cloud storage services have a new competitor: Estonia-based Storadera has come to market armed with a one-line price sheet for its single tier,...
Nodeum scaling up for exabyte environments
Profile: Belgian hierarchical storage manager Nodeum is developing exabyte-scale gen 2 software as it seeks to bolster its channel.
Nodeum software runs on Linux and provides a storage virtualizing control...
Spectra Logic partners with iRODS Consortium
Data preservers need a data store and Spectra Logic plans to provide it, with movement from on-premises tape to disk and cloud object stores a benefit.
It has collaborated with...
PoINT object archive combines disk and tape
Germany's PoINT Software and Systems has devised a combined disk plus tape archive product with disk random access speed and tape capacity.
Its Point Archival Gateway - Unified Object Storage...