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...
Breaking down the storage supplier revenue tiers
The storage market is mature and rigid, according to the revenue picture for publicly owned storage companies, which shows five stratified revenue layers, with a bit more movement among...
Storage news ticker – September 16
The AI Summit showed that architectural / resource disaggregation is an increasing focus in the AI industry – both at the chip and system level, says Wells Fargo analyst Aaron...
Infinidat gets kudos for block array ransomware protection
Infinidat has been named by analyst GigaOm as the top ransomware-protecting block storage array supplier.
The “GigaOm Sonar Report for Block-based Primary Storage Ransomware Protection” looks at a number of...
Seagate Exos arrays get punchier RAID controller
Seagate has uprated its Exos Application Platform (AP) arrays to new Exos X models with a VelosCT ASIC RAID controller boosting performance.
The drive maker started building Exos AP block...
Storage news ticker – September 6
AMD announced that the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card, powered by the Pensando data processing unit (DPU) chip will be one of the first DPU products to support VMware...