Storage news ticker – February 7
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Computational storage startup Eideticom has been assigned two patents: 10,996,892 for "Apparatus and Method for Controlling Data Acceleration" and 11,231,868 for "System and Method for Performing Computational Storage Utilizing...
Tosh disk ships and capacity rise faster than WD and Seagate in 2021
Toshiba was the only one of the big three disk drive manufacturers to increase its unit shipments in 2021, with exabytes shipped rising faster than the market average as...
IBM shrinks in fourth quarter as revenues and profits grow – but storage detail...
After spinning off the unwanted Kyndryl (Global Technology Services business) IBM's fourth 2021 quarter revenues grew compared to the restated year-ago quarter, and profits rose as well. But, despite,...
Disk customer supply chain issues hit growth in WD’s latest quarter
Western Digital revenues grew strongly in its latest quarter but disk drive supply chain issues held it back from much stronger growth.
WD revenues for its second fiscal 2022 quarter,...
Storage news – January 27
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China's State Administration for Market Regulation has conditionally approved AMD's acquisition of Xilinx. It has conditions such as that AMD/Xilinx work with and support local Chinese partners, and ensure...
Seagate has great fiscal 2022 second quarter and could have a boom year
Disk drive manufacturer Seagate could be positioned for a breakout fiscal 2022. It reported revenues of $3.12 billion for its second fiscal 2022 quarter, ended December 31, and up...
DDN focussing on AI, containers and edge trifecta
DDN is focussing on AI, container and edge environments in product developments for this year in its HPC and now enterprise storage supplier journey.
The company presented at an IT...
Kalista fires a Phalanx software gun to fix SMR disk problems
Kalista IO’s Phalanx software separates read from write SMR disks in a JBOD to bring big performance gains to server applications which need no code changes, not even for...
Infinidat celebrates a very good 2021
Enterprise storage array supplier Infinidat reported 40 per cent year-on-year bookings growth in 2021.
This included an end-of year boost, with 68 per cent growth in the final quarter, and...
Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
Hyve is a TD Synnex business unit...
Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Approximately 64 million drives...
Storage news ticker – January 13
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Data protector Catalogic Software announced general availability for its latest DPX software, with enhancements to agentless backups for virtual environments, cloud archiving, and improved capabilities for compliance and ransomware...