Backblaze blitzes cloud storage speeds with ‘shard stash’ cache
Backblaze cloud and backup storage is speeding up small file uploads by using a fast SSD ingest cache called a shard stash.
The business stores ingested files on disk drives,...
Western Digital sees shoots of growth after HDD winter
Following another low revenue quarter at Seagate, Western Digital disk sales were also depressed but flash bucked the downcycle trend, and WD thinks the disk market is bottoming out.
Western...
Western Digital spinning out Flash business
Western Digital has concluded its strategic review and intends to separate its existing hard disk drive and flash/SSD businesses into two separate publicly listed companies by the second haf...
Seagate revenue decline continues amid slow HDD sales
Revenue declines continue at Seagate – first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings were 29 percent lower than a year ago, when they were 35 percent down on the year before...
Seagate pips Toshiba and WD to 24 TB drive
Seagate has announced the Exos X24 at 24 TB, the highest capacity nearline disk drive using conventional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, giving it a 2 TB capacity advantage...
Dell PowerMax update boosts green credentials
A v10.1 software update to the high-end PowerMax storage array from Dell reduces its electricity consumption, the company says.
PowerMax is a mission-critical array supporting open systems, mainframe, and virtualized...
Exagrid passes 4,000 customer count
As it projected it would back in June, ExaGrid now has over 4,000 customers following what it described as the strongest Q3 in the company’s history.
The company supplies scale-out...
Western Digital boss most disliked tech CEO in survey
David Goeckeler, CEO of Western Digital, has the highest disapproval ratings in a survey of tech bossess by social network company TeamBlind.
The Blind social network is formed of business...
CoreWeave lists Backblaze as customer data store
CoreWeave, the mammoth GPU-as-a-Service supplier, has listed Backblaze as a store for its customers’ data.
Cloud storage supplier Backblaze has a strategic partnership with CoreWeave and can deliver a cost...
CERN’s exabyte-plus of data needs exabyte-class EOS filesystem
The reason that CERN, Europe's atom-smashing institution, can store more than an exabyte of online data comes down to its in-house EOS filesystem.
EOS was created by CERN staff in...
Huawei number 2 in all-flash array market, say analysts
Gartner's latest external storage market numbers show the total all-flash array market is down 7 percent annually to $2.635 billion, with Huawei up 33 percent – placing it second...
Ephemeral cloud, decentralized solutions, and the future of block storage
Chris Evans is the consultant and analyst behind Architecting IT. He has a reputation for shrewd and insightful analysis of storage technologies and suppliers. We thought we'd take advantage...