Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
Hyve is a TD Synnex business unit...
Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Approximately 64 million drives...
Storage news ticker – January 13
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Data protector Catalogic Software announced general availability for its latest DPX software, with enhancements to agentless backups for virtual environments, cloud archiving, and improved capabilities for compliance and ransomware...
Storage news ticker – January 10
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According to the UK Guardian, EU police agency Europol will have to delete at least 4PB of personal data it is unlawfully storing. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS),...
Abbamatic trio sings MAMR mia – here we go again
A three-way collaboration between Showa Denko, TDK and Toshiba has resulted in a demonstration of MAMR recording technology showing that 30+ terabyte disk drives are possible.
Toshiba disk drives use...
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
Fawcett has been NetApp's top internal lawyer for 10 years, being appointed...
Storage news ticker – December 22
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iXsystems has introduced TrueCharts, a first app catalog for TrueNAS SCALE, its scale-out storage and hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It includes Kubernetes for deploying containerised (e.g. Docker) applications. Many apps...
Storage news ticker December –14
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Ascend.io says Snowflake users can put workloads on autopilot with Ascend’s Data Automation Cloud. This automates data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability using Ascend’s DataAware intelligence. The Ascend...
Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the vendor’s strategic...
Learning from history: QNAP’s ULINK AI tool predicts SATA drive failures
Taipei-based QNAP has a machine learning-based SATA disk and SSD drive failure predictor for its NAS systems that means you can replace the drives before they fail.
It has a...
Show us what you got: Showa Denko opens Toshiba door to 30TB+ drives
Showa Denko (SDK) has developed a hard disk drive recording medium that will support Toshiba producing 30TB-plus drives using a Microwave Assisted Switching-Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAS-MAMR) technology suggested by...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of rows per...