WD CEO: 'Clearly, HDD plays a big role in the AI storage life cycle'
Western Digital’s third quarter results were boosted by a strong rise in disk revenues along with increased demand for SSDs.…
Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline…
Quantum introduces all-flash deduping backup target appliances
Quantum has added two all-flash appliances to its deduping backup target product set. The T10-60 and T210-120, in 1RU chassis,…
Storage news ticker - 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data…
Kioxia plans IPO to tackle $5.8B debt amid industry shakeups
NAND and SSD manufacturer Kioxia is preparing an IPO to recapitalize itself as payment of a ¥900 billion ($5.8 billion)…
Leil Storage trumpets green ‘hyperscaler’ backup for on-prem environments
Leil Storage, a startup owned by Estonian storage systems builder DIAWAY, is extending its sustainability credentials in the second half…
Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and…
Storage news ticker – April 11
Reuters reports that AWS has lost an S3 and Dynamo DB patent infringement case brought by Kove IO. The jury…
Bring down the HAMR: Multi-layer disk tech could triple storage capacity
Researchers from Japan and Seagate have demonstrated a multi-layer disk drive recording method that could double or triple disk drive…
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB…
Storage news ticker – March 21
An AWS blog explains how you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This makes it easier…
Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services
Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2." Update.…
Storage news ticker – March 14
Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers"…
Huawei MED drive information emerging slowly
Huawei is developing an archival storage system using magneto-electrical disks (MED), claiming its power draw is similar to a spin-down…
Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions
Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the…
Huawei developing magneto-electric drive for cold storage
As we wrote in a storage news ticker, Huawei has announced that it has an OceanStor Arctic device for storing…
Storage news ticker – February 28
German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data…
Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul
Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened…