The case for high-cap SSDs overtaking HDDs as datacenter standard
Analysis: With the arrival of 122 TB SSDs, the case for disk drives being replaced by SSDs suddenly looks much…
WD’s HAMR switch could be closer than we think
Analysis Intevac has said there is strong interest in its HAMR disk drive platter and head production machinery from a…
Western Digital flash unit boss to exit amid split in the biz
Western Digital EVP and GM Robert Soderbery, head of the NAND and SSD business unit, is leaving on January 2.…
Pure Storage notches up hyperscaler deal, revenue uptick
Pure Storage reported Q3 2025 revenues rising 9 percent to $831 million, revealing that a top-four hyperscaler licensing deal for…
'Leading CSP' gives Seagate HAMR drives the all-clear
Seagate can start volume shipping HAMR drives after receiving qualification from a leading cloud service provider and other high-capacity drive…
Synology appoints US subsidiary CEO to drive enterprise expansion
Synology vet James Chen has been appointed CEO for Synology America to spearhead its enterprise storage market business growth with…
Freely access NetBackup files without using Veritas software
S2|DATA has launched a no-cost Libertas utility to read and access Veritas NetBackup disk images – without requiring NetBackup software…
Quantum DXi9200 hybrid backup appliance replaces previous models
Quantum has launched a high-end DXi9200 target backup appliance as its sole hybrid (flash+disk) hardware accompanying the two all-flash T-series…
Quantum faces revenue drop but anticipates turnaround with operational overhaul
Quantum reported subdued results for its second FY 2025 quarter but said operational improvements, a product portfolio refresh, and go-to-market…
VDURA enhances VDP performance and scalability for AI
VDURA has upgraded its VDURA Data Platform (VDP) storage operating system to provide more performance, scalability, and simpler management –…
Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
Huawei’s in-house development of Magneto-Electric Disk (MED) archive storage technology combines an SSD with a Huawei-developed tape drive to provide…
Toshiba drives power CERN's data demands at the LHC
CERN, with more than 120,000 disk drives storing in excess of an exabyte of data, is probably Toshiba’s largest end-user…
Disks spin Western Digital cloud revenues higher
Western Digital's disk drive revenues leapt 85 percent higher year-on-year in its latest quarter as hyperscalers stored more data on…
Lenovo hires WD disk exec to head infrastructure business
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla has been hired away from running Western Digital’s disk drive operations to lead the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG)…
Seagate revenues soar on strong high-capacity drive demand
Seagate’s disk drive slump is over with a revenue rise due to US cloud providers buying more mass-capacity drives, and…
Western Digital matches Seagate’s 32 TB HAMR capacity with 11-platter ePMR HDDs
Western Digital has matched Seagate’s 32 TB HAMR disc capacity by adding an 11th platter to its conventional disk drives.…
Storage news ticker – October 10
Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting…
Storage news ticker – October 3
Adaptive announced a control plane that brokers access across all surfaces and safeguards sensitive information, protecting data closer to its…