Storage news ticker – January 14
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A Backblaze blog claims public cloud service provider data retention minimum periods are like a data deletion tax. “Let’s call retention minimums what they really are: delete penalties. We...
Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Approximately 64 million drives...
Storage News ticker – January 11
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Cobalt Iron, which provides SaaS-based enterprise data protection, has received US Patent 11206306 on its technology for analytics-based cloud brokering of data protection operations. The patented techniques use unique operational...
Interview with a Rubrik MSP channel partner
Blocks & Files had the opportunity to meet and interview Simon Chappell, the CEO of Managed Service Provider (MSP) Assured Data Protection which bases its services on Rubrik's software....
Christmas storage quiz
Think you know the storage industry? Here is a quiz to test your knowledge. See if you can name pictured CEOs, match press release descriptions to suppliers, explain what...
Western Digital spinner boss drops tape archive invasion bomb
Blocks & Files was briefed by Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, EVP and GM of Western Digital’s hard disk drive (HDD) business, who suggested WD could move into the tape archive market...
Microfluidic channel SlipChip DNA storage is glacially slow
Chinese scientists have stored and retrieved data in DNA on a single electrode instead of using complicated chemical laboratory equipment for synthesising and manipulating DNA in the storage process....
HPE’s revenue growth anaemia versus profits on steroids
HPE grew revenues in its fourth fiscal 2021 quarter at an anaemic two per cent rate — compared to Dell’s 21 per cent rise in its most recent quarter...
GigaOM takes notice of DPUs
Data Processing Units (DPUs) help organisations build denser, faster, more efficient and cost-effective IT infrastructures, with the goal of providing an overall lower total cost of ownership.
This is the...
Peter Pans – teenage startups with no filed IPO plans
What is a startup? What do you call a startup that refuses to grow up and have an IPO — a Peter Pan?
Is Nebulon, a four-year-old company that has...
Storage news ticker – November 19
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AT SC’21 Dell EMC announced new and updated Dell Technologies Validated Designs available for Siemens Simcenter Star CCM+. They provide multi-physics CFD simulation on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge...
And so it comes to pass: Gen-Z will be folded into CXL
In the tense game of poker whose stakes are defining the component interconnect post-PCIe, the Gen-Z consortium has folded. It will be absorbed into the Computer Express Link (CXL)...