Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul
Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened since then?
Hitachi Vantara was the US-based storage and IT...
Storage news ticker – February 28
German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data in the Azure public cloud's Blob Storage Archive Tier....
Huawei developing magneto-electric drive for cold storage
As we wrote in a storage news ticker, Huawei has announced that it has an OceanStor Arctic device for storing archive data.
A presentation at MWC24 in Barcelona by Huawei’s...
Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions
Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the latter.
Western Digital, under activist investor engagement from Elliott Management,...
Huawei MED drive information emerging slowly
Huawei is developing an archival storage system using magneto-electrical disks (MED), claiming its power draw is similar to a spin-down disk archive.
This OceanStor Arctic device first emerged in a...
Storage news ticker – March 14
Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers" which ranks the 500 top startups displaying excellence across...
Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services
Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2."
Update. Merrie Williamson hire note added at end of story, 14...
Storage news ticker – March 21
An AWS blog explains how you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This makes it easier to run near-real-time time-series applications using InfluxDB and open...
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB and Semantic Kernel's extensible open source SDK for AI...
Bring down the HAMR: Multi-layer disk tech could triple storage capacity
Researchers from Japan and Seagate have demonstrated a multi-layer disk drive recording method that could double or triple disk drive capacity in a proof-of-concept study.
Hard disk drive platters have...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Reuters reports that AWS has lost an S3 and Dynamo DB patent infringement case brought by Kove IO. The jury awarded Kove $525 million. The case took place in...
Leil Storage trumpets green ‘hyperscaler’ backup for on-prem environments
Leil Storage, a startup owned by Estonian storage systems builder DIAWAY, is extending its sustainability credentials in the second half of this year by introducing much lower power backup...