Storage news ticker – 16 January 2026
There will be February 2026 Deposit Ceremony at the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard. AWA says “This ceremony is a rare opportunity to access the vault inside the mountain,...
Storage News Ticker – 15 January
Data protector Catalogic released DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery platform. “People will continue to use tape as their main backup target...
Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite
A Dell VP has said reclaiming installed SSDs for reuse is risk-laden as data could be lost.
David Noy, VP for Product Management at Dell and VP of Product Management...
SK hynix developing split-cell 5-bit flash
SK hynix presented its latest 5-bit cell NAND flash technology at the San Francisco 2025 IEDM conference in December. The approach splits 3D NAND cells in half, increasing the...
Veeam confirms acquisition of Object First
Veeam has acquired Object First and its Veeam-only backup target appliance products in a near silent transaction, it has confirmed to B&F.A Veeam spokesperson said: “We can confirm the...
PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power
Dell has updated its PowerStore array, adding more capacity and resiliency while making file operations slicker
PowerStore is Dell’s dual-controller, unified file and block, disk, hybrid and all-flash, storage array....
VAST Data’s Flash Reclaim attacks competitors’ installed bases
VAST Data thinks the SSD and HDD supply shortage problem is so severe that it has a Flash Reclaim initiative to repurpose a customer’s installed SSDs for use in...
ExaGrid logs record Q4 as customer and booking growth continue
Backup target appliance supplier ExaGrid had a record fourth 2025 quarter with its highest-ever overall revenue and bookings, record revenue and bookings for new customers, and existing customers repeat...
Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?
As SSD prices rise we wonder whether we’re seeing a panic-buying storage media price rise bubble or is AI-driven demand real? In either case, what should we do about...
Sandisk and high-bandwidth flash efforts
Analysis: Sandisk has published a blog about an interview with high bandwidth memory (HBM) pioneer Professor Joung-ho Kim from KAIST’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. KAIST is Korea’s...
Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe the three and set them in an AI inferencing...
WD Black and Blue replaced by Sandisk Optimus branding
Sandisk, which became independent from disk drive maker Western Digital last February is replacing its inherited WD branded SSDs with its own Optimus brand.
Pre-split Western Digital supplied internal-fit SSDs...