Sk hynix said to have concerns over Kioxia-Western Digital merger
The long-running and ongoing merger discussions between Bain Capital-owned Kioxia and its manufacturing joint-venture partner Western Digital’s NAND and SSD business is being reportedly upset by SK hynix's concerns.
SK...
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...
Micron introduces advanced 7500 datacenter SSD
Micron is launching a 7500 datacenter SSD using 232-layer 3D NAND technology, exceeding the prior 7450 drive on all counts except random write IOPS where both drives are equal.
The...
Storage news ticker – 12 October
Data protector Acronis announced its Acronis CyberApp Standard integration technology, which broadens the Acronis ecosystem to third-party vendors, offering them the means to integrate their products and services into Acronis Cyber...
Pure introduces DRaaS, offers rebate deal
Pure has introduced a Disaster Recovery service and is offering financial and service operation terms that it hopes will encourage customer retention and attract fresh users.
The vendor is pledging...
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...
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...
Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses use eMMC flash
Meta has announced its second generation smart glasses in conjunction with EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Ban, two years after the first Stories generation was launched. Photos and videos taken by...
Storage news ticker – 29 Sep 2023
Backblaze, which uses SSDs as boot drives for its disk-based storage servers, has produced its latest SSD annualized failure rate (AFR) report. Restricting its stats to drives with more...
Micron’s revenues plunge 40% amid weak economy and China sanctions, execs banking on GenAI...
Micron revenues fell again - as expected - in its final quarter of fiscal 2023 ended August 31, with a crappy economy and biting sanctions that prevent its products...