Latest generation LTO-10 tape arrives at Spectra Logic
Tape library and systems vendor Spectra Logic announced LTO-10 support across its tape library product set, but IBM’s tape drive shrinks the expected capacity and loses backwards compatibility.
LTO-10 is...
Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice.
The...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Auwau lifts lid on multi-tenant BaaS provisioning and billing
Auwau provisions multi-tenant backup services for MSPs and departmental enterprise with automated billing and stats.
It is a tiny Danish firm, just three people, with a mature Cloutility software stack...
Panzura Symphony taps IBM tape tech to cut cloud costs for cold data
The Symphony unstructured data estate data manager from Panzura has extended its reach into IBM Storage Deep Archive territory, integrating it with S3-accessed Diamondback tape libraries.
Symphony is Panzura's software...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will...
Cerabyte gets In-Q-Tel cash for data archiving
Ceramic nano-dot archiving startup Cerabyte has received an investment from In-Q-Tel as part of a strategic initiative to speed up its product development.
Cerabyte’s technology uses femto-second laser-created nano dots...
Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations)...
Storage news ticker – March 6
Kubernetes app data protector CloudCasa has integrated with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension. Users can install CloudCasa agents and manage and monitor backups directly from...
Chinese scientists spin molecular hard disk drive idea
Chinese scientists have devised an organic so-called molecular hard drive for archiving with multi-bit encrypted storage molecules written and read using an atomic force microscope.
The notion is presented in...
Storage news ticker – February 28
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze announced results for Q4 2024 and the full year. Q4 revenues were $33.8 million, up 18 percent, with a GAAP loss of $14.4...
Quantum reports steep losses, says better times lie ahead
Data storage supplier and protector Quantum reported a revenue upturn in its third fiscal quarter of 2025 and a massive loss as it clears the books and looks ahead.
For...