Storage startup births, acquisitions and market exits in 2023
Three interesting storage startups emerged in 2023, seven were bought and a few storage suppliers and products quit the scene. As more storage startups were bought than born, the...
Data protection in 2023 was all about resilience
Recovering from data loss and ransomware are the gifts that keep on giving ... for data protection suppliers, that is.
Update. Dell additions. 18 Jan 2024
Compared to a year...
Storage news ticker – January 12
Google Cloud has eliminated data egress fees for customers that quit its service. Amit Zavery, Head of Platform for Google Cloud, blogged: "Google Cloud customers who wish to...
NAND in 2023: Layer counts rise and QLC advances
It was a roller coaster year for NAND flash storage as shipments sank then recovered as a cyclical downturn reversed. Suppliers increased cost effectiveness by extending 3D layer counts...
Storage news ticker – January 10
Data at Rest (DAR) storage systems provider CDSG, with its DIGISTOR self-encrypting SSD, says the US's National Security Agency (NSA) has certified its Citadel C Series Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA),...
Micron NVDRAM may never become a product
Micron’s NVDRAM chip could be a proving ground for technologies used in other products – and not become a standalone product itself.
The 32Gb storage-class nonvolatile random-access memory chip design...
Pure Storage shifts focus to as-a-service model
Pure Storage expects more than half of its revenue to come from subscriptions as it shifts from product sales to become an as-a-service supplier.
This change in viewpoint is detailed...
Huawei overtakes Dell EMC as leading AFA supplier
Gartner analysis of third 2023 quarter all-flash array (AFA) sales show Huawei has leapfroggerd Dell EMC to become the world's biggest producer of this type of storage infrastructure.
The...
Storage news ticker – January 4
DataStax 2024 predictions:
AI will become more deeply regulated in the wake of consumer and regulator backlash.
The rise of Dark AI will cause societal and/or business disruption.
AI companies will shake...
Nearline drives will be last HDD holdout by 2028
SSDs, which are predicted to render hard disk drives obsolete by within four years, are set to increasingly grow capacity shipped faster than nearline disk drives between now and...
Storage news ticker – January 2, 2024
TrendForce's investigation into the impact of the recent 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, reveals that several semiconductor-related facilities are located within the affected...
SSD controller, object and block cloud storage predictions
Storage suppliers predictions generally predict that the supplier’s products will be successful - because they represent the view of the market through the supplier’s own lens. No supplier is...