GPU-fueled Nyriad is up for sale
Nyriad, the company offering GPU-powered storage controller technology, is up for sale.
A memo from CEO Derek Dicker reads: “After thoroughly considering and exploring various options, the Nyriad board has...
Seagate spins up a revenue recovery
Spinning-disk slinger Seagate this week signaled its revenue recovery has begun with a sequential revenue upturn in its second fiscal 2024 quarter.
It reported revenues of $1.56 billion, down...
Storage news ticker – January 24
Apple's Vision Pro virtual reality headset can be fitted with up to a terabyte of flash storage to store the content its wearers will no doubt want to engage...
30TB HAMR disk drives get less shingled capacity increase than you’d think
Shingled HAMR disk drives get a lower capacity increase than existing conventional drives. Is this due to HAMR technology itself or higher capacity drive tracks being narrower with less...
Quantum asks for more time to figure out true financial figures
Recalculating its financial situation is proving so difficult for Quantum that the biz has asked Nasdaq for more time to straighten it all out and avoid being de-listed.
The problem...
Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives
Seagate is announcing 30-plus TB Exos HAMR disk drives almost five years after aiming for 20 TB HAMR drive shipments in 2019.
Update: Some Exos Mozaic 3+ product details added....
Storage startup births, acquisitions and market exits in 2023
Three interesting storage startups emerged in 2023, seven were bought and a few storage suppliers and products quit the scene. As more storage startups were bought than born, the...
Data protection in 2023 was all about resilience
Recovering from data loss and ransomware are the gifts that keep on giving ... for data protection suppliers, that is.
Update. Dell additions. 18 Jan 2024
Compared to a year...
Nearline disk drive market showing signs of recovery
A sequential rise in nearline disk units and capacity shipped signals a market recovery, according to Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers.
Analyst Trendfocus issued preliminary shipment numbers for 2023's fourth...
Nearline drives will be last HDD holdout by 2028
SSDs, which are predicted to render hard disk drives obsolete by within four years, are set to increasingly grow capacity shipped faster than nearline disk drives between now and...
Hard disk capacity slightly expanded in 2023 amid SSD competition
The main storage technology themes in 2023 were capacity increases in disk and the possibility of SSDs replacing them. Dual actuator technology underwhelmed.
We started 2023 with Western Digital shipping...
Toshiba exec: HDDs have a bright future
A Toshiba exec says, contrary to the view of Pure Storage, disk drives have a long-ranging future as well as clear and sustainable advantages over SSDs.
Famously, Pure Storage CEO...