Quantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp's Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an SEC filing by the beleaguered business. The 8-K, filed...
Quantum accounting issues delay FY 2025 results
Quantum can’t file its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results because of accounting problems similar to those it experienced 18 months ago.
The company provides StorNext data management software,...
Spectra Logic to archive Rubin Observatory’s 500 PB cosmic time-lapse
The first images have come from the Vera C. Rubin telescope in Chile showing an unprecedented view of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky and the start of a ten-year...
Quantum swaps CEO after debt buyout and deepening losses
Jamie Lerner, the chairman, CEO, and president of tape and storage systems vendor Quantum, has resigned and been replaced by part-time board director Hugues Meyrath.
Beleaguered Quantum took a big...
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)...