Shhh. Lenovo’s silent Infinidat acquisition
If you look for any mention of storage or the ongoing Infinidat acquisition in Lenovo’s latest and record results you will be disappointed. The S word is just not...
Arcitecta now adept at AI
Arcitecta has evolved its Mediaflux data access and management fabric to an AI-ready platform with structured and unstructured data support, a vector database, and AI model support.
MediaFlux is distributed data...
Pure Storage claims its flash beats SSDs and disks on power and carbon metrics
Pure Storage looked at the VAST/Solidigm SSDs vs HDDs white paper and thought that its device-level TCO comparison was not all there was to say. The company claims that...
Storage news round-up – 11 August
Open-source storage hardware supplier 45Drives has a strategic partnership with LINBIT, creators of DRBD and LINSTOR, to deliver fully-integrated, enterprise-grade high-availability (HA) storage systems built on open-source technologies. It...
Solidigm/VAST study says SSD system costs much less than disk drive one
Solidigm has released a 10-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model showing a VAST Data/Solidigm SSD system supporting 1 EB of data costs 58.9 percent less than an equivalent...
Backblaze cloud revenues grow and accelerate with AI customers
Backup and cloud storage provider Backblaze reported revenues 16 percent higher with major contributing segment cloud storage growing 29 percent.
It earned $36.3 million in second calendar 2025 quarter revenues...
Backblaze drive stats show 20 TB-class drives doing very well
Cloud storage provider Backblaze found that its disk drive failure rate was lower in the second 2025 quarter as previously high-failure-rate drives went kaput less often.
Its Drive Stats Team...
Western Digital Q4 buoyed by cloud buyers as nearline HDD focus deepens
Western Digital posted a strong set of fourth quarter financial results as cloud and datacenter customers accounted for 90 percent of its revenue, underscoring its increasing reliance on a single...
Seagate posts 30% growth as HAMR drives lift it from slump
Seagate revenues grew by almost 39 percent year-on-year in the corporation's fiscal 2025 ended June 27 as HAMR drives lifted it out of a two-year sales slump. The drive...
ExaGrid reports growth in deduped backup biz
ExaGrid says it's had another storming quarter, with the privately held company saying this is its 18th consecutive growth quarter selling tiered deduping backup target appliances that compete with...
Where to point your RAG: Sourcing proprietary data for LLMs and AI agents
Analysis: There are many places within IT infrastructure that organizations can use to get a single proprietary data source for their large language models and AI agents doing RAG...
Seagate launches 28 and 30 TB HAMR hard drives for edge AI and NAS
Seagate has announced global channel availability for its 28 and 30 TB Exos M datacenter and IronWolf Pro NAS disk drives, both conventionally recorded drives built with HAMR technology.
HAMR...