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...
Having an efficiency standard like SNIA’s is good. But what about public cloud?
Comment: The Emerald energy initiative from the SNIA holds great promise to better measure storage efficiency and lower carbon emissions, but it's missing a public cloud storage element, and...
TrendForce: YMTC NAND could exit the market
TrendForce has altered its YMTC NAND 2023 forecast from 60 percent bit ship growth to 7 percent decline and has suggested the Chinese semiconductor corp could even exit the...
Storage titans face Turkish competitor inspired by VAST Data’s architecture
NGX Storage, a Turkish storage outfit, is developing a scale-out NVMe block storage array with a top-level hardware architecture similar to VAST Data's Universal Storage scale-out filer array.
Privately owned...
Storage news ticker – December 15
Apache Cassandra v4.1 is a milestone release that's mainly a feature update geared toward preparing for the major changes for developers in 5.0. Significant core services changes have been...