Western Digital hires Cisco exec as new CEO
Western Digital has appointed David Goeckeler, the head of Cisco’s networking and security Business, as its new CEO.
Goeckeler starts on March 9 and outgoing CEO Steve Milligan stays on...
HPE storage sales remain flat despite adding SimpliVity HCI to the numbers
HPE storage revenues fell in Q12020, but the company was pleased even to maintain "flat sequential revenues competitive backdrop", CFO Tarek Robbiati said.
The Register noted in its...
Nexsan turbo-charges the BEAST array with QLC flash
Nexsan has re-engineered the BEAST entry-level block storage array to use QLC flash and 16TB disk drives, providing lower latency, more bandwidth and higher capacity.
The BEAST's latest incarnation comes...
Dell merges server and storage sales teams to combat enterprise slowdown
Dell has combined its server and storage teams in response to a slowdown in enterprise sales in North America and China.
Speaking in the Dell Q4 earnings call yesterday, COO...
Infinidat exhibits six exabytes – good that!
Infinidat, the high-end disk-based storage array maker, today announced it has deployed more than six exabytes of storage capacity, up from 5EB six months ago.
The company anticipates continued demand...
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...