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...
Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and storage suppliers are vying to see who has the...
Kioxia plans IPO to tackle $5.8B debt amid industry shakeups
NAND and SSD manufacturer Kioxia is preparing an IPO to recapitalize itself as payment of a ¥900 billion ($5.8 billion) loan is due in June.
The company is 56.24 percent...
Storage news ticker – 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data for almost two years. Cohesity’s DataProtect and Data Cloud...
Quantum introduces all-flash deduping backup target appliances
Quantum has added two all-flash appliances to its deduping backup target product set.
The T10-60 and T210-120, in 1RU chassis, will replace the current DXi mid-range, according to an IT...
Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline high-capacity drive orders. Broadcom has acquired its ASIC assets,...
WD CEO: ‘Clearly, HDD plays a big role in the AI storage life cycle’
Western Digital’s third quarter results were boosted by a strong rise in disk revenues along with increased demand for SSDs.
Its revenue slump is ending. Earnings in its third fy2025...
A guide: The ‘best’ storage devices for the main applications
A recently published guide has listed what it says are the best storage devices for multiple uses.
The guide, from the SecureData Recovery blog, is written by T.J. Burlee, a...
Dell pumps power higher for PowerProtect products
Dell has added faster PowerProtect appliances, enabled PowerProtect to back up all-flash PowerMax arrays, and introduced an AI copilot to help customers use its APEX Backup Services.
The company is...
Storage news ticker – May 1
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: "Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead end, especially for SaaS services like Microsoft 365."
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Seagate pushes back against SSD dominance claims
HDD maker Seagate wants us to understand three truths about the myth of SSDs replacing disk drives: SSD prices will not match spinning disk prices, SSD fab capacity won’t...