Dell surfs AI server wave in Q3, storage was a wipeout
Dell reported record Q3 revenues of $27 billion, up 11 percent year-on-year, driven by explosive AI server demand. However, the quarter marked a sequential decline from Q2's $29.8 billion,...
Storage News Ticker, 21 November 2025
Atempo is a France-based data protection company with data managing, moving and protection software products like Miria, Tina and Lina. Jeremy Smith tells us: “I’m the new President at...
Hitachi Vantara’s high-end block storage array news
HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash systems and new, more powerful high-end model.
The updated range...
VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon
TACC’s Horizon supercomputer is using VAST Data online storage, a Dell caching archive front end, Versity software, and Spectra Logic offline tape storage to hold its data.
TACC, the Texas...
Storage news ticker – 13 November
Anomalo introduced AIDA, its AI Data Analyst built directly on top of its data quality platform. With AIDA, every data user from analyst to executives can interact with their data...
Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3
Backblaze’s monthly disk drive stats tell a different story this month with odd failure rate rises
Cloud storage supplier Backblaze puts out quarterly annual failure rate (AFR) statistics for its...
VDURA Data Platform adds snapshots, SMR support to boost scale and cut costs
Version 12 of VDURA Data Platform (VDP) scales out metadata compute, adds system-wide snapshots, and supports shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drives to lower per-TB costs.
VDURA says this release...
Sandisk revenues boom as data center glory beckons
SSD supplier Sandisk enjoyed another double-digit revenue growth quarter with sales increases in all three of its market segments
Revenues in its first fiscal 2026 quarter were up 23 percent...
MAID re-inventer Leil raises €1.5 million seed funding for petabyte datasets on SMR disks
Estonia-based Leil Storage has raised €1.5 million ($1.73 million) funding to develop its vast data set storage system based on spun-down shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drives.
As envisaged by...
Toshiba more than doubles video surveillance disk capacity
Toshiba has increased its video surveillance disk drive capacity from 10 to 24 TB with a new S300 AS model.
The shingled magnetic recording (SMR) S300 and conventional (non-shingled) S300...
Active Archive Alliance sees three archive tiers
WORM, WORSe and WORN are three archive tiers defined by the Active Archive Alliance, as it sees AI requiring fast access to recently archived data which requires dynamic access.
These...
Western Digital makes bank in Q1 amid AI gold rush
Western Digital's revenues for Q1 of its fiscal 2026 - ended October 3 - jumped 27 percent year-on-year to $2.82 billion on the back of hyperscalers buying nearline disk...