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,...
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...
Micron strikes deal with Silvaco to optimize fabs
Silvaco Group has enhanced its partnership with flash memory and chipset maker Micron Technology. Silvaco is a provider of TCAD (technology computer-aided design), EDA (electronic design automation) software, and...
Kioxia launches 1 TB SD memory cards for demanding multimedia
Kioxia Europe has unveiled the EXCERIA G2 SD memory card series, offering capacities of up to 1 TB.
The “next gen” products are designed for long-time 4K video recording, for...
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...
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...
Samsung reportedly plans to leapfrog to 430-layer NAND in 2025
Samsung is planning to bypass the 300-layer 3D NAND level and go straight to 430-layer flash after a 290-layer product planned for next year.
According to Korea's Hankyung media outlet,...
Micron unveils QLC NAND SSD with more than 200 layers
Micron has launched a 2500 QLC NAND internal fit client product that’s faster than its 2550 TLC predecessor, despite TLC NAND typically being quicker than QLC NAND.
TLC (triple level...
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...
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...
VAST Data ports software to Google Cloud
VAST Data has ported its Data Platform software to Google’s cloud enabling users to spin up VAST clusters there.
Update: VAST can work with Vertex AI. 12 April 2024.
VAST supplies...
Pure Storage: We are the AI data platform – part 2
We quiz Pure's VP for R&D Shawn Rosemarin on AI training, inference and Retrieval Augmented Generation. The first part of this interview is here.
B&F: Do storage considerations for running...