For sale: Toshiba considering a buyout
Japanese conglomerate Toshiba is actively soliciting proposals from potential investors and sponsors about the future of the company, including taking the business private in order to increase its corporate...
Storage News Ticker – 22 April
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Unstructured NAS and object data migrator and manager Datadobi has signed Climb Channel Solutions to distribute its products to resellers and solution providers in the EMEA region.
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Gartner has released...
Seagate object storage used in exascale computing projects
Seagate’s CORTX object storage was used for high-performance research projects in the European Union’s SAGE Exascale computing initiative.
SAGE, started in 2015, is one those weird made-up acronyms, and apparently...
Coercivity
Coercivity - the amount of resistance in a ferromagnetic medium to having its magnetic direction (north or south pole) lost by exposure to an input magnetic field. A disk...
There’s no flash in ExaGrid’s plan, says exec
ExaGrid makes disk-based purpose-built backup appliances and its CEO told us he sees no need to move to flash media.
We suggested ExaGrid might add an SSD front end as...
Nearline disk shipments flatten as COVID sales boom cools down
Researchers at TrendFocus reckon that all disk drive shipments declined sequentially in Q1, with nearline-only shipments growing year-on-year but declining slightly quarter-on-quarter and all other categories seeing double-digit percentage...
Infinidat sticks to its guns for on-premises growth
Infinidat will strengthen its products with access to a wider range of client protocols, as it sticks to its on-premises high-end storage focus – but not to the extent...
Storage news ticker – April 5
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Unstructured data manager Aparavi and cloud storage supplier Wasabi Technologies announced a partnership agreement and validated interoperability of the Aparavi Platform with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage to deliver improved...
Big data? Bring it on – XenData’s multi-100PB active archive
XenData has announced an X100 active archive which can manage multiple hundreds of petabytes in tape or optical cartridge libraries with a front-end RAID cache.
This system is for enterprises...
Seagate launches 10-platter 20TB video surveillance disk drive
Seagate has added a 10th platter to its SkyHawk product line, resulting in a 20TB video surveillance drive.
Update: Exos and IronWorld Pro 20TB drives are 10-platter designs. 30 March...
Western Digital wins ethics award months after settling lawsuit over SMR scandal
Western Digital is being recognized as one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" by Ethisphere for the fourth year in a row just three months after settling a class...
NetApp is increasing targets thanks to CloudOps biz
The Cloud Operations (CloudOps) business looks so good for NetApp that the company has increased its overall revenue targets.
This was revealed at a NetApp Investor Day conference on March...