Scality reckons there’s life in HDDs yet
Just five more years and spinning will be over. That was the opinion of Pure Storage several weeks ago when it said it believed SSDs would...
Storage relative bright spot in dismal Q1 for Dell
It was a tough Q1 of fiscal 2024 for Dell as revenues fell by a fifth on the back of shrinking PC and infrastructure sales.
NetApp’s sales slide, with no relief in the outlook
NetApp’s latest quarterly revenues have fallen, in line with HPE and Pure Storage.
Revenues in NetApp's Q4 of its fiscal 2023 ended April 28,...
Seagate waits for HAMR time amid debt paydown
Seagate wants to raise $1 billion in a private bond placement to pay off debt as it begins the process of laying off staff following dreadful Q3...
Infinidat upgrades to hybrid cloud storage
High-end array supplier Infinidat says it is now a hybrid on-premises and public cloud storage supplier with strengthened cyber-resilience and new deep scanning and indexing detection features.
Panasas shrinks HPC powerhouse into edge-sized box
Panasas has halved the size of its ActiveStor Ultra parallel file system node to make a lower-cost edge datacenter box.
The ActiveStor range runs...
Spectra Logic and Arcitecta take on NAS market
SpectraLogic and Arcitecta are partnering to enter the high-performance scale-out NAS market with the former's all-flash BlackPearl storage system and the latter's MediaFlux software.
Kioxia CD7 SSD: PCIe 5 drive hits HPE servers
Kioxia has announced its datacenter SSD series is for HPE servers and arrays, using 3D NAND two generations behind its latest tech but with the latest PCIe...
Storage races to innovate in face of data explosion
The whole area of IT storage is buzzing with innovation, as startups and incumbents race to provide the capacity needed in a world exploding with unstructured data....
New moves in AFA driven by QLC flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and...
Pure: No more hard drives will be sold after 2028
In the latest blast of the HDD vs SSD culture wars, a Pure Storage exec is predicting that no more hard disk drives will be sold after...
Western Digital beats guidance by gnat’s whisker
Western Digital saw Q3 2023 revenues sink 36 percent annually as the HDD and SSD downcycle continues, but it did beat its guidance – just.
Western Digital’s online store still closed six weeks after cyberattack
Western Digital’s online store is still offline, six weeks after a March 26 cyberattack. WD has not yet completed its probe into how much of its data...
Storage news ticker – May 4
Apricorn has announced the release of the USB 10Gbps Aegis NVX, the first Apricorn encrypted device to feature an NVMe SSD inside. The NVX’s high-speed read/write capabilities at...
The bigger HDDs come, the harder they fall. Well, kind of
Cloud and backup storage supplier Backblaze publishes quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics and has just started doing so for its SSD boot drives as well....
Storage news ticker – May 2
Open source data synchronizer Airbyte has a new API, complementing its existing cloud UI, that makes it possible to automate data movement and manage large deployments. Other...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet...
Seagate HAMRs way to top of nearline capacity
Seagate has a 30TB+ HAMR disk drive coming this quarter for its CORVAULT arrays, which will leapfrog the capacity of Western Digital’s 22TB and 26TB drives and...