Storage drive channel hopping defeats attackers: NexiTech
NexiTech has taken the security idea of frequency-hopping radio systems and applied it to storage drive IO – such that its software hops between drive types to...
Storage news ticker – 24 March 2023
Acronis researchers have spotted new types of malware and attack vectors such as polymorphic malware and fileless attacks. Many threats use a pure in-memory approach which can...
Quantum says its souped-up video surveillance system supports more than 10,000 cameras
Quantum’s latest USP v5 video surveillance software adds stronger data reduction and can support more than 10,000 cameras on a single system, the company tells us.
Infinidat hybrid array RoI? 11 months, says IDC in sponsored white paper
Infinidat has commissioned tech analyst IDC to write a white paper looking into “The Business Value of Infinidat Storage.” The analyst's researchers interviewed seven enterprise customers in...
Most failed disk drives fail just before they hit 3 years’ use, says data...
Secure Data Recovery found that average failed hard drive spun for 25,233 hours before failing. That’s 1,051 days, or two years and ten months.
Lenovo: Building better storage mousetraps
Lenovo says it has grabbed a slightly bigger slice of the storage market, and has some new products and services out – DM Series ONTAP-based storage software,...
Seagate, Los Alamos bring compute to storage
Disk drive vendor Seagate is bringing compute to disk drives and storage arrays – so-called near data computing – in partnership with Los Alamos National Labs (LANL).
Storage news ticker – 13 March
Data protector and manager Atempo has a partnership with Microsoft’s Azure cloud to migrate unstructured datasets to the Azure cloud using its Miria software. The Azure Storage...
Backblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives, a difference of 0.66 percentage points....
Who’s winning and losing in the storage market?
The latest look at storage supplier revenue trends show the flash and disk media companies taking a dive and systems suppliers like Dell, Pure Storage, and Snowflake...
HPE Alletra storage sales a bright spot
HPE storage contributed to strong first fiscal 2023 quarter results as all business units grew and collectively drove revenues, leading the company to raise its outlook.
Dell storage closes FY 2023 with record revenue
The fourth quarter is always a belter for Dell and its latest results show a record $5 billion in storage revenues.
Total revenues in...
Pure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data
Pure Storage says it has a new FlashBlade//E product optimized for capacity, designed to replace mainstream disk-based file and object stores with an acquisition price comparable to...
Storage news roundup – March 1
Avery Design Systems has announced a validation suite supporting the Compute Express Link (CXL) industry-standard interconnect. It enables rapid and thorough system interoperability, validation and performance benchmarking...
WekaIO’s stance on sustainable AI puts down roots
WekaIO wants us to be aware of datacenter carbon emissions caused by workloads using its software technology – AI, machine learning and HPC – and aims to...
Panasas’s halfway HPC house approach to the public cloud
HPC parallel scale-out file system software supplier Panasas has decided that full scale adoption of the public cloud, with its PanFS software ported there, is not needed...
Storage news roundup – February 22
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It...
App storage engines speed up data IO, search
Equipping high IO applications with internal storage engine code makes their data ingest, search and read faster than just leaving these operations to external SAN, filer or...