MAID re-inventer Leil raises €1.5 million seed funding for petabyte datasets on SMR disks
Estonia-based Leil Storage has raised €1.5 million ($1.73 million) funding to develop its vast data set storage system based on spun-down shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drives.
As envisaged by...
Toshiba more than doubles video surveillance disk capacity
Toshiba has increased its video surveillance disk drive capacity from 10 to 24 TB with a new S300 AS model.
The shingled magnetic recording (SMR) S300 and conventional (non-shingled) S300...
Active Archive Alliance sees three archive tiers
WORM, WORSe and WORN are three archive tiers defined by the Active Archive Alliance, as it sees AI requiring fast access to recently archived data which requires dynamic access.
These...
Western Digital makes bank in Q1 amid AI gold rush
Western Digital's revenues for Q1 of its fiscal 2026 - ended October 3 - jumped 27 percent year-on-year to $2.82 billion on the back of hyperscalers buying nearline disk...
Seagate profits surge as cloud giants snap up HAMR drives
Disk drive giant Seagate saw revenues rise 21 percent year-over-year to $2.63 billion with a $549 million GAAP profit, up 80 percent, as supply-constrained drives met AI-driven demand strength...
How can Lenovo integrate its to-be-acquired Infinidat?
Analysis. Lenovo and Infinidat have been studiously quiet about how Lenovo’s to-be-acquired Infinidat storage will co-exist with Lenovo’s existing OEM’d NetApp ONTAP storage arrays. The Infinidat and NetApp hardware...
Storage News Ticker – Oct 24
Rubrik delivery partner Assured Data Protection (ADP) is itself partnering US headquartered technology services distributor (TSD) Telarus. As a result Telarus will offer Assured’s Rubrik-based data backup and disaster...
Starcloud pitches orbital datacenters as cheaper, cooler, and cleaner
Orbiting datacenters look a lot more feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed.
Startup Starcloud wants to build datacenters...
The end of the disk drive bathtub curve
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the "bathtub curve" effect may be imaginary.
The idea is that disk drives fail either early on in their life or after many years,...
Quantum & Meyrath: Products and processes
The first part of this interview looked at Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath’s career and how it came about that he joined Quantum as its CEO. This next part looks...
Seagate working on Composable Memory Appliance with CXL memory
Seagate and ZeroPoint Technologies demonstrated hardware-accelerated compression within a CXL memory tier at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, CA.
How could disk drive supplier Seagate utilise ZeroPoint’s HW-accelerated...
Storage news ticker – October 15
Broadcom announced its third-generation Tomahawk 6 Davisson (TH6-Davisson) product, the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch – double the bandwidth of any CPO switch available today....