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...
Panasas updates flash-in-a-box HPC system plus high-capacity hybrid box
Panasas has revved its high-performance scale-out hybrid ActiveStor Ultra 100 storage with an all-flash version and an expanded capacity hybrid flash/disk Ultra XL system.
CEO Tom Shea said Panasas was...
Western Digital faces conundrum: to split or not to split?
Activist investor Elliott Management says the shareholder value of Western Digital would be much greater if its disk drive and SSD businesses were separated. Does it have a point?
The...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Aerospike announced the GA of Aerospike Database 6 – the core engine that powers Aerospike's Real-time Data Platform. Aerospike Database 6 gives developers an environment that supports multiple programming...