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...
Dell EMC Isilon PowerScalisation — new models, ransomware protection and faster backup
Dell EMC has added new hybrid and archive nodes to its PowerScale filer range, provided ransomware protection services and accelerated PowerScale backup and restores. There are four new hardware...
Same old, same old — IDC Q2 2021 Storage Tracker
IDC’s latest quarterly external storage market tracker shows a great year-on-year advance by Huawei, and a tremendous fall by IBM — but, really, nothing much has changed at all.
The...
HPE adds superpower StoreOnce deduped backup appliances
HPE has added three new models to its StoreOnce purpose-built deduplicating backup appliance range, upping capacities and transfer speeds.
Update: HPE info added 9 September 2021 re HW boosts to...
Western Digital: MAMR Mia, here we go again
It used to be thought that WD was betting big on a MAMR technology change — a big bang, as it were — like the change from longitudinal to...
HPE’s revenues rise at lethargic rate but demand and order rate impress
HPE revenues rose just one per cent in its third fiscal 2021 quarter, ended July 31, with supply constraints hitting server ships, but underlying overall order growth promised well...
Seagate is public cloud storage supplier for Zoom meetings
Zoom meeting customers will be able to store recorded meeting in Seagate’s public cloud: Lyve Cloud.
Yes, Seagate has a public cloud storage business.
Under a Seagate-Zoom agreement, when Zoom’s customers...
WD improves disk capacity in a flash; MAMR delayed
Western Digital has added a metadata-storing thumbnail-sized flash drive to the controller of a disk drive and increased its overall capacity and speed. It says a 50TB drive using...
Seeing the light: Folio Photonics hopes to crack the optical archive disk market
Folio Photonics aims to develop an archive optical disk with lower-than-tape cost, terabyte-class capacity, multi-decade life and backwards compatibility through technology generations.
It reckons its technology is simpler to productise...
Public cloud hits the spot for NetApp’s Q122 results
NetApp grew its revenues 12 per cent year-on-year to $1.46 billion in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, ended July 30, and near the high end of its guidance, with...
Pure breaches the hyperscaler disk wall
Pure Storage’s revenues grew 23 per cent year-over-year in its its latest quarter and it expects a growth acceleration next quarter, with an eight-figure hyperscaler deal and the COVID...