Storage news ticker – October 28
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The Wall Street Journal says email protector Mimecast is exploring a sale. It reckons Mimecast has a market value of about $4.5 billion and is working with bankers on...
Minority Report: Seagate violated anti-Huawei trade sanctions
A US Senate Republicans’ reports says Seagate broke trade rules supplying disk drives to Huawei.
Huawei was first put on a US trade blacklist in May 2019. Western Digital then...
Mass-capacity drive demand sends Seagate revenues soaring to the clouds
Seagate has benefitted from an extraordinary secular change in the disk drive market as cloud-scale datacentre demand sends its quarterly revenues up 35 per cent year-on-year — its fourth...
NetApp previews high-end array and adds automatic anti-ransomware weapons to ONTAP
At a virtual Insight 2021 event, NetApp has unveiled planned automated ransomware defences in the latest release of its ONTAP array operating system, along with enhanced data services and...
Infinidat lures Eric Herzog away from IBM to become its chief marketing honcho
Infinidat has hired one of the most recognisable and prominent marketeers in the storage industry as its Chief Marketing Officer — Eric Herzog.
This is the second formal CMO in...
3-2-1 — Portworx PX-Backup supports golden rule
Pure’s Portworx business unit has updated its container PX-Backup software to add support for file shares, object storage targets, inter-cloud portability and encryption.
PX-Backup v2.1 can back up Kubernetes applications...
Hitachi Vantara tries to catch up, with VSP arrays, hybrid cloud and containerisation support
Hitachi Vantara has added new top-end storage arrays along with support for hybrid clouds and containerisation, faster object storage and S3 object ingest, plus improved Ops Center management.
Update; VSP...
A digest with lots of storage news shrimps on the barbie: Cohesity, DDN’s Tintri...
The focus this week is on Cisco and Cohesity partnering to help security ops people fight malware, TrendFocus’s disk ship data for the third quarter — cue a PC...
ExaGrid exceeds revenue records again
Has ExaGrid achieved a $100 million revenue run rate? The deduping backup target shipper with fast restore capabilities has announced its third record-breaking quarter in a row with accelerating...
Backblaze: SSDs might be as unreliable as disk drives
Cloud backup and data storage provider BackBlaze is finding its SSDs fail at nearly the same rate as its disk drives at the equivalent stage in their life cycle.
A...
Seagate: HAMR is nailing it – no looming 20TB to 30TB capacity problem
Western Digital and Toshiba have promoted their advances in disk drive areal density and performance based on specific technology advances, such as bias currents, enhanced PMR using a microwave...
Seagate’s Gen-2 HAMR blow
Seagate has a second-generation 30TB HAMR disk drive in development, and sees Gen-1 HAMR as having limited appeal.
Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) is Seagate’s chosen technology to increase disk drive...