Toshiba joins 24 TB CMR and 28 TB SMR disk drive club
Toshiba has caught up – again – with Seagate and Western Digital by announcing sample shipping of Mx11 family 24…
Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives
Microsoft is using robots to take dead disk drives apart and recycle the parts as part of its e-waste reduction…
Storage news ticker – September 2
Broadcom announced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, a cloud-native application platform, with standardized golden paths to production for developers and platform engineers.…
Dell’s server revenue bumper jumper
A massive rise in server sales led Dell’s second fiscal 2025 quarter revenues to a 9 percent year-on-year rise to…
Pure Storage eyes hyperscaler and AI market expansion as Q2 revenues surge
Pure Storage revenues grew in its second fiscal 2025 quarter, with hyperscalers and AI showing promise for the future. Revenues…
NetApp reports strong Q1 growth driven by all-flash arrays
NetApp revenues are up, driven by all-flash array sales, making Q1 fiscal 2025 the company's third successive growth quarter. Revenues…
Storage news ticker – August 27
The Acronis Threat Research Unit is sharing new insights regarding a misconfiguration in Microsoft Exchange Online settings that could result…
Western Digital flash spinoff valuation could mirror Solidigm's
Western Digital is spinning off its NAND and SSD business, which could be valued similarly to Solidigm, says Wedbush analyst…
Omdia sees strong rebound in datacenter storage market
Tech analysis house Omdia sees the datacenter external storage market growing again after a 2023 dip with Dell, Huawei, NetApp,…
SSD capacities set to surge as industry eyes 128 TB drives
Maximum SSD capacity is expected to double from its current 61.44 TB maximum by mid-2025, giving us 122 TB and…
All taped up: Quantum’s hyperscaler tape sales dive hits bottom line
Quantum’s latest results show that the collapse of its hypescaler tape business caused a significant revenue dip. The biz has…
WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages
A California jury has awarded MR Technologie of Germany $262 million in patent infringement damages in a jury trial against…
Toshiba’s video surveillance disk drive rocket
Toshiba says it has increased the S300 Pro’s surveillance disk drive’s transfer rate by doubling its cache capacity. The 3.5-inch…
Storage news roundup - 9 August 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze pulled in $31.3 million revenues during calendar Q2, up 27 percent YoY, and it reported a…
Backblaze drive type profiling predicts replacement and migration
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is developing drive type profiling models to optimize its drive replacement and migration strategies. The work…
IEEE report: When it comes to SSD and HDD tech roadmaps, money talks
An IEEE report sees no mass takeover of the disk drive market by SSDs because HDD cost/bit is decreasing fast…
Western Digital's recovery accelerates
Revenues in Western Digital's fourth fiscal 2024 quarter, ended July 341, were $3.76 billion, 41 percent higher year-on-year and beating…
VDURA argues HDD systems are greener than flash arrays
HPC storage supplier VDURA is claiming that disk drive arrays are more environmentally friendly than all-flash arrays in terms of…