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…
Professor Onur Mutlu and team win Huawei OlympusMons award for storage research
Computer science Professor Onur Mutlu has won a Huawei OlympusMons award for far-reaching research on data placement tech and NAND…
Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says…
NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage
SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based…
Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management
Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product…
Storage news ticker – February 4
Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV)…
Storage news ticker – January 29, 2024
Data protector Acronis announced the integration of its Advanced Security and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions. Its users gain…
Western Digital roller coaster continues as Seagate brings down the HAMR
The disk/SSD downcycle low point has been reached for Western Digital with its second successive sequential revenue growth quarter. Revenues…
GPU-fueled Nyriad is up for sale
Nyriad, the company offering GPU-powered storage controller technology, is up for sale. CEO Derek Dicker A memo from CEO Derek…
Seagate spins up a revenue recovery
Spinning-disk slinger Seagate this week signaled its revenue recovery has begun with a sequential revenue upturn in its second fiscal…
Storage news ticker – January 24
Apple's Vision Pro virtual reality headset can be fitted with up to a terabyte of flash storage to store the…
30TB HAMR disk drives get less shingled capacity increase than you'd think
Shingled HAMR disk drives get a lower capacity increase than existing conventional drives. Is this due to HAMR technology itself…