Storage news roundup – November 3
Data protector Arcserve has appointed Christian van den Branden as CTO, leading the global research and development group, advancing Arcserve's technology innovation, and driving the strategic direction of the...
Solidigm CEO’s departure takes staff by surprise
Rob Crooke, the CEO of Solidigm - SK hynix’s acquired Intel SSD business - has suddenly departed.
Crooke ran the Intel SSD business when it was sold to SK hynix...
Kioxia brings SSDs to AI and Arm environments
Kioxia has extended the market for its SSDs by getting them qualified for Arm servers, and by devising an AI image classification method using SSD data.
It seems counterintuitive, but...
Supermicro partnering with GRAID and Qumulo
Supermicro is partnering with GRAID and Qumulo in two separate deals to have customers buy its servers fitted with GRAID’s GPU-powered RAID cards or used to run Qumulo's scale-out...
VAST Data to ‘revolutionize’ data lake market
VAST Data claims to have has grown its business significantly faster than the general storage industry and says it will revolutionize the data lake market by onboarding OEMs in...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has announced better than expected preliminary results for Q3 2022. Revenue is expected to be between $22.0 and $22.1 million versus previous guidance...
Western Digital profits plummet and revenues fall – but less than Seagate
Western Digital saw a 26 percent revenue drop in its latest earnings report compared to last year – which was better than Seagate's 35 percent fall and with no...
Storage news ticker – October 27
Commvault is protecting K8s workloads with its Complete Data Protection and Metallic offerings. It promises cloud-native protection and recoverability for the entire Kubernetes ecosystem, including full clusters, namespaces, and...
Kioxia opens new fab as IPO plan shelved
Kioxia has confirmed its IPO plans are on hold as it opened Fab7 at Yokkaichi in Japan with NAND foundry partner Western Digital.
The plans were filed in August 2020...
Eradicate data – don’t destroy unwanted drives
Verity ES is a company that permanently deletes data from storage devices so they can be recycled instead of being destroyed, with three-pass overwrite deletion of an 8TB disk...
Storage news ticker – October 24
Astera Labs demonstrated how datacenter operators can improve performance and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with its CXL, PCIe 5.0, and Ethernet Connectivity solutions at the OCP Global...
Samsung wins on PCIe 4 SSD performance
Samsung has followed up its 980 Pro with the even faster 990 Pro, which beat Solidigm’s recently announced P44 Pro as a gamer’s gumstick SSD.
Update. Solidigm P44 Pro layer...