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...
More bang for your enterprise storage buck with parsimonious StorONE and Seagate
StorONE’s software and Seagate’s 84-slot drive chassis make a low-cost, high-capacity storage array with enterprise features which is available as a bundle.
The chassis is Seagate’s five rack unit Exos AP...
Seagate pipelining test car data to IBM/Nvidia AI smart car modelling systems
Moving 100TB per car of data a day from test cars to GPU-driven automated driver assistance (ADAS) AI modelling systems needs a multi-stage data pipeline. Seagate, IBM and Nvidia...
Toshiba extends 18TB technology to NAS and workstation disk drives
Toshiba has extended the use of its 18TB FC-MAMR MG09 disk drive technology to its N300 NAS drive and X300 workstation drives, raising their maximum capacity to 18TB from...
Tintri products refreshed with DDN controllers
DDN-owned Tintri has updated its IntelliFlash all-flash N-Series and hybrid flash/disk H-Series arrays, adding DDN fault-tolerant controllers while reducing the effective capacity levels of the H-Series. This continues its...