NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
HPE storage revenues recover but are still down
HPE’s third fy21 quarter storage revenues of $1.13bn recovered from the Covid-19 beating they took in Q2 but are still down 10 per cent year-on-year.
A huge order backlog was...
Seagate readies 18TB IronWolf NAS drive for mid-September launch
Some online retailers are listing an unannounced 18TB Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS disk drive.
For example, Sweden’s Data Byran is one emailer listing the drive, pricing it at 6,990 kronor...
Enterprise SSDs cost ten times more than nearline disk drives
Nearline drives remain the sweet spot in the HDD market - and a key reason is that the 10x price premium that enterprise SSDs command remains stubbornly high and...
WD and Seagate in 18TB disk drive drag race
Western Digital was late to market with 16TB Ultrastar nearline disk drives, gifting Seagate an opportunity for its 16TB Exos drives. The arch-rivals are now in a...
Western Digital’s ePMR is stopgap HDD technology
Seagate began shipping 16TB Exos nearline drives in June last year, before Western Digital had even announced its own 16TB drive tech. It took another eleven months for WD...
Western Digital loves flash more than hard drives
Western Digital is generating more revenue from flash and SSDs than from disk drives. Does this show that WD is losing out big time to Seagate in the key enterprise...
Factory outage torpedoes Toshiba disk drive shipments
Toshiba disk drive shipments fell by half in the second 2020 quarter - an outage at its Philippines disk manufacturing plant is thought to be to blame.
Wells Fargo senior...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...
Nearline drives are Seagate’s money-making machine
Hyperscalers and enterprise data centres helped Seagate grow revenues in its Q4, despite a pandemic-related drop in demand in several market areas.
Revenues climbed 6.3 per cent year-on-year to $2.52bn...
WD Gold 16TB and 18TB hard drives hit the streets
Western Digital has officially taken the wraps off 16TB and 18TB Gold enterprise-class hard drives. The company is also making Ultrastar 16TB and 18TB versions more widely available...
Pure pushes past IBM for top three place in all-flash array market
Pure Storage has overtaken IBM for the third slot in Gartner's revenue league table for the first quarter. Dell EMC and NetApp maintain first and second places and IBM...