Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale
Bloomberg reports Japanese multi-national conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. is aiming to sell off its Hitachi Vantara data storage subsidiary for up…
Western Digital blows hard disk drive future wide open
Western Digital is qualifying 40 TB hard disk drives, has outlined a roadmap to 100 TB, and is announcing two…
Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate
Western Digital is making more than double the profits from its shipped disk drive exabytes than Seagate. An analyst asked…
Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance
Disk drive maker Western Digital beat the $3 billion high end of its guidance with a highly-profitable second fiscal 2026…
VDURA offers to undercut all-flash rivals amid SSD price surge
VDURA is offering a Flash Relief Program whereby it will match or beat VAST Data and WEKA all-flash array quotes on…
Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges
Seagate surpassed the high end of the prior quarter’s $2.8 billion revenue outlook with $2.83 billion for its second fiscal 2026…
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors
WEKA and Hammerspace have issued guides on how to respond to the memory and SSD supply shortages and price hikes…
ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances
ExaGrid has launched four all-flash backup appliances with faster ingest speeds and larger capacities complementing its existing disk-based range of purpose-built…
Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028
Semiconductor industry watchers say the memory market has entered a prolonged upcycle, with DRAM and NAND likely to remain in…
Komprise’s response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns
Data manager Komprise has its own take on how organizations should respond to substantial enterprise SSD prices rises and lengthened…
VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives
HPC and AI storage supplier VDURA says the price gap between SSDs and hard disk drives is widening as flash…
Storage news ticker - 16 January 2026
There will be February 2026 Deposit Ceremony at the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard. AWA says “This ceremony is a…
Acronis adds archive service using Seagate’s Lyve Cloud
Acronis has launched an Archival Storage service for managed service providers and their small/medium business customers. It provides S3-compatible object…
Storage News Ticker - 15 January
Data protector Catalogic released DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery platform. “People will continue…
Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite
A Dell VP has said reclaiming installed SSDs for reuse is risk-laden as data could be lost. David Noy, VP…
Veeam confirms acquisition of Object First
Veeam has acquired Object First and its Veeam-only backup target appliance products in a near silent transaction, it has confirmed…
PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power
Dell has updated its PowerStore array, adding more capacity and resiliency while making file operations slicker PowerStore is Dell’s dual-controller,…
VAST Data’s Flash Reclaim attacks competitors' installed bases
VAST Data thinks the SSD and HDD supply shortage problem is so severe that it has a Flash Reclaim initiative…