Seagate signs orbital satellite storage drive collaboration
Satellite builder Ball Aerospace has signed a memorandum of understanding with Seagate to collaborate on data processing and storage technology in space.
Update: It's SSD-based. See +Comment 2 section below;...
StorONE drops capacity-based pricing and boosts software efficiency
StorONE has introduced a per-drive pricing model and updated its Storage Engine software to deliver more IOPS from fewer drives, automatically tier from SSDs to disk drives with no...
Pandemic, inflation and supply chain issues hurt Seagate revenues
Disk drive maker Seagate saw its revenues drop almost ten percent year-on-year as inflationary pressures, COVID lockdowns in Asia, and non-HDD component shortages impacted sales outside the enterprise nearline...
After swimming up the Amazon, Cloudian’s object storage now stacks up with Azure
Cloudian's cloud-native HyperStore object storage has been validated to work with Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI as a local storage component.
In June, Cloudian announced it had been been validated by...
Western Digital first to ship 22TB drives
Western Digital is now shipping three mainstream 22TB disk drives after announcing it was sampling the products in May.
They are the Gold IT/data center, Red Pro NAS, and Purple...
IBM storage revenues up thanks to mainframe refresh
IBM has reported financial results for the second 2022 quarter, ended June 30, with storage hardware sales growing at the start of a new mainframe cycle.
Total group revenues were...
Storage news ticker – July 14
Cloud-enabled data management services supplier Aparavi is partnering with cloud storage suppler Backblaze. This combines Aparavi's Data Intelligence and Automation Platform and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to provide cost-effective...
ExaGrid’s regular as clockwork growth machine
Exagrid has recorded another record-breaking revenue and bookings quarter, taking its customer count past 3,400.
This builds on its first 2022 quarter revenue record with ExaGrid exceeding that and reporting...
Tape is low cost and a low carbon storage winner
Consultant Brad Johns thinks moving archive data from disk to a 60:40 tape:disk situation could cut its ten-year CO2 emissions by almost 60 percent and its total cost of...
Zettabyte era brings archiving front and center
Veteran storage analyst Fred Moore told a Fujifilm event audience that we're entering a zettabyte era of data storage and archival storage will be the dominant technology by capacity.
The...
Nearline disk drive shipments stall in calendar Q2
A report from research house TrendFocus shows growth in nearline disk unit shipments is essentially flat year-on-year while capacity shipped is growing only slightly.
Total hard disk drive (HDD) unit...
Ocient discusses hyperscale data analysis problem
Ocient reckons it has solved a niche but hyperscale data analysis problem.
Blocks & Files met Ocient founder Chris Gladwin. His company has built a massively scalable parallel-access relational database...