Storage news ticker – January 17
Cloud-native distributed, CDC-based data replication platform supplier Arcion announced a real-time integration connector for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE). It claims this enables high-volume database migration and real-time...
Quobyte storage used for primary genomics data
Case Study. Quobyte unified block, file and object storage is being used by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to store primary life sciences and genomics data in a hybrid...
Samsung launches new desktop gumstick SSD
Samsung has produced a new desktop SSD, the PM9C1a, using seventh-generation (176-layer) 3D NAND, with slight performance increases over the prior PM9A1 and PM9B1 products.
All three are M.2 gumstick format...
VAST may embrace GPU processing nodes
VAST Data has been promising a move up the stack from storage to better support AI/ML workloads for some time now. Nothing has been revealed but clues have been...
NetApp appoints new CMO
NetApp has appointed software and cloud-focused Gabrielle Boko as its new CMO to replace the departing James Whitemore.
Whitemore, NetApp EVP and CMO from November 2019 until this month, and...
HPE Apollo 4000 servers rebranded with Sapphire Rapids CPUs
HPE has rebranded its Apollo 4000 data storage server line as the Alletra 4000, with two new products: the Alletra 4110 and 4120, both with Gen 4 Xeon Sapphire...
Micron launches faster U.3 datacenter SSD
Micron has launched a 9400 datacenter NVMe SSD using the PCIe gen 4 interface with great performance and a 30.7TB maximum capacity.
Update: 7450 and 9500 positining comment from Micron...
Pure Storage on its predictions for 2023
B&F discussed predictions for 2023 with Ajay Singh, Pure Storage's Chief Product Officer, and challenged some of these, including tiering management, the economics of HDDs and more.
Pure Prediction -...
Kioxia-WD merger negotiations reportedly restart
Bloomberg reports Kioxia and Western Digital are discussing a merger in renewed talks that could create a force in the NAND industry to rival Samsung.
Kioxia and Western Digital operate...
Storage news ticker – 3 January 2023
Acronis' latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 has found that phishing and the use of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) fatigue attacks are on the rise....
‘It’s ugly’: Micron DRAM and NAND revenues down, layoffs coming
Micron has moved deeper into a NAND market revenue trough with no sign the bottom has yet been reached. It’s making production cuts, lowering exec pay and laying off...
StorONE reshuffles executive team
Multi-purpose storage system supplier StorONE has made some exec changes.
Chief revenue officer Chris Noordyke has been promoted to general manager, and Jenn Null, head of demand generation, is now...