A quick primer on HPE Cray Frontier’s parallel file system storage
The exciting news about the HPE Cray-built Frontier supercomputer formally passing the exascale test made me curious about its storage system. I pointed my grey matter at various reports...
Folio Photonics joins Active Archive Alliance
Archive optical disk developer Folio Photonics has joined the Active Archive Alliance, bringing it a step closer to delivering product into an archive ecosystem.
The Folio Photonics DataFilm Disk (DFD) has...
Storage news ticker – May 31
HPC storage supplier Panasas has announced a new global strategy with added benefits and incentives to grow sales reach through channel and alliance partners. New features include a partner...
Toshiba edging nearer to 26TB capacity nearline disk drives?
Japanese disk drive media manufacturer Showa Denko K K (SDK) is shipping 26TB capacity disk drive platters. It has not revealed its customer, but Toshiba uses Showa Denko platters...
Storage news ticker – May 18
Cloud and backup storage service provider Backblaze has announced an improved channel program. It will drive joint marketing activities, provide co-branded collateral, and establish market development funds to drive...
Gartner: Enterprise SSDs will hit 35% of HDD/SSD exabytes shipped by 2026
In four years' time over 95 percent of shipped hard disk drives will be high-capacity nearline 3.5-inch drives, and SSDs will outstrip the "other disk drive" categories, including notebook,...
Western Digital: The disk drive roadmap
Western Digital execs trumpeted its disk and flash/SSD roadmaps and growth prospects at a May 10 Investor Day event that was perhaps overshadowed by the break-up proposal from activist...
Storage news ticker – 11 May
Aerospike has announced GA of Aerospike Database 6 (AD6), a fresh release of the core engine that powers Aerospike’s Real-time Data Platform. It has native support for JSON document...
Seagate pushes Lyve Cloud into Hammerspace
Seagate and Hammerspace are working together to have Seagate's Lyve Cloud storage-as-a-service (STaaS) and Exos CORVAULT disk box included in Hammerspace's Global Data Environment (GDE).
The GDE provides access to...
Western Digital spins out 10-platter drives
Western Digital is sampling conventional 22TB and shingled 26TB 10-platter disk drives to cloud service providers with mass availability scheduled for the summer. It is also introducing SSDs using...
A glimpse at Dell’s future
Dell Technologies World 2022 attendees this week saw and heard from Dell's probable next CEO: Chuck Whitten, He arrived at Dell as its co-COO in August last year, a man...
Storage news ticker – May 5
Bacula is announcing the availability of its Nutanix AHV backup module which includes agentless deployment, snapshot-based backup/restore, support for any kind of guest VM, and hot copy – meaning...