Learning from history: QNAP’s ULINK AI tool predicts SATA drive failures
Taipei-based QNAP has a machine learning-based SATA disk and SSD drive failure predictor for its NAS systems that means you can replace the drives before they fail.
It has a...
Show us what you got: Showa Denko opens Toshiba door to 30TB+ drives
Showa Denko (SDK) has developed a hard disk drive recording medium that will support Toshiba producing 30TB-plus drives using a Microwave Assisted Switching-Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAS-MAMR) technology suggested by...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of rows per...
Western Digital: Oh HAMR, how I do love thee
Western Digital is focussing more on HAMR as its breakthrough technology to into the 30TB and beyond disk drive area, with no flash-disk cost crossover for at least ten...
The need for speed: Seagate’s 20TB drives take on WD with a performance edge
Following Western Digital’s September launch of two 20TB drives, Seagate has introduced two 20TB drives of its own: an Exos X20 and an IronWolf Pro, both transferring data 16MB/sec...
Infinidat: we’re boosting our channel, even as others retreat
Infinidat, the memory-cached high-end array shipper, says it has been — and is — building up its channel partners and program while competitors are reducing their channel commitment.
It claims...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business is growing...
DNA storage and science: archiving unreality
DNA storage researchers have devised a neat way to record events inside cells down to a one-minute granularity, but are wildly off-beam when predicting this could become useful as a...
NexuStorage says blocks and files can come from object storage
NexuStorage’s Nexfs software serves block and file data from an object-backing store using sub-file chunking to reduce data movement and help data tiering, and claims great tier-one storage cost...
Storage news ticker – November 18
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Acronis announced that 2021 was the best year in its history. Ronan McCurtin, VP sales Europe, Israel and Turkey, said: “This has been a record-setting year in revenue growth...
DDN turbo-charges SFA arrays with massive bandwidth expansion
DDN has accelerated its SFA200 and SFA400 NVX arrays by up to 156 per cent by adding more and faster PCIe lanes and upgrading the controllers to Gen-3 Xeon...
StorONE jumps on ransomware protection train with fast-recovering backup system
Storage startup StorONE has developed a fast-recovering, ransomware-protecting, flash-to-disk auto-tiering version of its software called S1:Backup.
S1:Backup is a backup target for Commvault, HYCU, Rubrik and Veeam’s data protection software...