Toshiba selects Showa Denko platters for MAMR HDDs
Showa Denko (SDK), the Japanese chemicals and electronics company, among other things, makes platters for disk drive makers such as Toshiba. A 2019 annual results report reveals it is...
Google hybridises six storage vendors for the Anthos Kubernetes cloud
Google has announced the Anthos Ready Storage program for third-party on-premises storage suppliers.
Six vendors have qualified for the initial line-up: Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage and...
The flash revolution will be delayed – due to an unexpected strong demand for...
The tech storage industry consensus is that enterprise hard drives sales will fall at the expense of solid state drives (SSDs) in all areas except for hyperscale data centres....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring mainframes, HAMR and a data protection deluge
Your occasional storage digest this week features boatloads of data protection news from Atempo, Clumio, Cobalt Iron, Datrium, Druva, Infrascale and Overland-Tandberg.
Also we cover mainframe data extraction and...
BackBlaze reports unexpectedly high failure rate for one of Seagate’s 12TB drives
BackBlaze has reported "a higher-than-typical failure rate among some of our 12TB Seagate drives" at its cloud storage facility.
In a recent hard drive stats report, Yev Pusin, BackBlaze’s director...
Hard disk drives will disappear from your data centre – unless you work for...
The flash assault is progressing to the point where disk drives could will disappear from most data centres in a few years. That's because flash affordability and performance will...
Nexsan adds QLC flash to storage array line-up
Nexsan today announced a dense flash addition to its mid-range E-Series array and also added fast RoCE access and blockchain security to the Assureon archive line.
Mihir Shah, CEO of...
Seagate reports quarterly earnings – and revenues are as flat as a spinning...
Disk drive maker Seagate has announced flat revenues and lower profits in its second fiscal 2020 quarter ended 3 January 2020, but as a bright spot, 3.5-inch drives accounted...
We object: Quantum snaps up Western Digital’s ActiveScale business
What a week for Quantum. It made its first quarterly profit in more than four years. It qualified to get listed on Nasdaq and now it is buying Western...
Flash flood is over, says WD as it reveals flatlined revenues
Western Digital reported flat results for its second fiscal quarter ended January 3, 2020 today, with a small uptick in data centre segment and a large dip in flash sales.
Revenues...
Coronavirus outbreak: Which NAND and disk suppliers are at risk?
NAND and disk drive supplies could be reduced after China put entire cities into lockdown in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
So far some 6,000 people are known to have...
Come to MAMR! Western Digital unfurls HDD tech roadmap
Western Digital clarified its hard disk drive (HDD) technology road map at a Storage Tech Field Day session on January 22, 2020, but managed to avoid revealing how its...