Your occasional storage digest with Toshiba drives, Excelero and more
There’s life in the mid-range capacity disk drive yet as Toshiba introduces a line of sub 10TB drives that don’t use sealed enclosures full of helium gas. Data protector...
Western Digital looks to Cloud Titans for growth
Western Digital’s fiscal Q1 ended 30 September show a pandemic-induced decline. But the company is optimistic that hyperscalers will drive growth from next year onwards.
Revenues fell 3 per cent...
Infinidat sued by employees for ‘secretly’ diluting shares
Infinidat, the high-end Israeli storage startup, is being sued by 29 current and former employees for wrongfully diluting their shares in the company.
The plaintiffs are holders of Infinidat Class...
Seagate calls the bottom of (its) pandemic trough
Seagate's first fiscal 2021 quarter revenues were depressed by the pandemic but the disk drive maker thinks things will start to pick up. In the earnings call, CEO Dave...
DDN hauls NVMe storage chassis to Tintri products
DDN has injected its all-NVMe flash storage chassis into its Tintri product line to start the cost-cutting process of unifying product hardware across its two divisions.
Tintri was acquired by...
Array with you: StorONE claims failed SSD rebuild in minutes, 16TB disk in under...
New York storage firm StorONE has emitted a new release of its S1 array software that it claims rebuilds failed SSDs in three minutes and can sort out...
This week in storage with Fujitsu, HPE, Intel and more
This week's data storage standouts include Intel spinning out a fast interconnect business; HPE and Marvell's high-availability NVMe boot drive kit for ProLiant servers; and Fujitsu going through...
Nearline drives are bright spot in Gartner HDD forecast
Nearline disk drive capacity shipments and revenues will grow at double-digit percentages between 2019 and 2024, according to Gartner. The tech research firm predicts other disk categories will decline,...
Hardware fault shuts Tokyo Stock Exchange for the day
A data storage hardware failure was to blame for day-long Tokyo Stock Exchange outage on Thursday October 1.
In a press conference, TSE executives "squarely accepted responsibility for the incident,...
External storage sales flat in Q2 – not too shabby, considering pandemic and all...
Global external storage sales in the second 2020 quarter were flat year on year despite Covid and remained steady on the previous quarter. All-flash array revenues grew four per...
From the very big to the very small – WD’s Purple and Red have...
Western Digital is spreading 18TB bigness into WD Purple video surveillance and WD Red Pro NAS disk drives.
These are nine-platter conventionally recorded drives that use WD’s ePMR bias current...
Seagate gets into object storage with new CORTX software
Seagate is entering the object storage business with brand new CORTX software.
The disk drive maker aims to build a developer community for the open source software and has published...