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...
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...