Scality claims disk drives can use less electricity than high-density SSDs
Scality analysts have said that, in some use cases, disk drives can use less power than SSDs – specifically when compared with high-density SSDs when the storage is in active...
When hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
Storage supplier Quantum has encountered significant challenges due to a decrease in device and media sales, and reduced spending by hyperscale customers.
In the first fiscal quarter of 2024 ending...
Toshiba: $14B buyout offer led by Japanese businesses is go
Publicly owned Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, which makes disk drives and has a stake in Kioxia, is attempting to take itself private via a $14 billion ( ¥2 trillion) buyout...
Blancco champions permanent data erasure solutions
Profile. As the world continues to grapple with the realities of increasing data volumes and e-waste, companies like Blancco have found their niche by providing data erasure solutions. These...
Backblaze sees uptick in 8 and 10TB drive failures
Cloud storage provider BackBlaze has reported an increase in annual failure rates for its 8TB and 10TB disk drives.
The company currently maintains a population of 241,297 disk drives and...
Org puts nanofiche disks in lunar library in latest ‘billion-year’ archive effort
The Arch Mission Foundation (AMF), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, has placed nickel-based Nanofiche disks on the Moon, creating an extraordinary cold analog/digital data archive library. The project aligns...
Infinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
High-end array supplier Infinidat says bookings bounced 29 percent year-over-year during the first six months of 2023.
The company sells InfiniBox storage arrays with a memory-caching capability that it says...
Flickers of light appear at the end of Western Digital’s tunnel
Western Digital experienced another quarter of depressed revenues but saw signs of an uplift in its client and consumer businesses.
The company has two divisions: hard disk drives and SSDs...
Seagate cites ‘profound downturn in demand’ as revenues dip… and it won’t get better...
The disk drive market is depressed with Seagate reporting its lowest annual revenues in 17 years, as Seagate’s largest buyers, the hyperscale cloud providers, bought far fewer nearline drives,...
VAST Data wins TACC supercomputer storage contract
VAST Data has secured a contract from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for its single-tier, NFS-based flash storage system, edging out traditional disk-based HPC parallel filesystems such as...
NetApp, Pure Storage witness dip in all-flash market share
In its latest storage market review for the first quarter of 2023, Gartner reports that both NetApp and Pure Storage experienced a decline in market share.
The total all-flash market...
Quobyte is cool – liquid nitrogen cool
Case study. Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) researchers in Portland are using cryogenically cooled electron microscopes to build 3D images of biological molecules as they investigate how proteins...