Disk drive capacity shipments out to 2030 forecast to rocket upwards
An analyst report says disk drive capacity shipments are orojected to rise steeply bupwards between now and 2030. Tom Coughlin…
Western Digital lends RapidFlex tech to Ingrasys for Ethernet SSD box
Western Digital is supplying NVMe PCIe-to-Ethernet RapidFlex bridge technology to Ingrasys, which will manufacture a fast, Ethernet-accessed box of SSDs…
Sandisk launches fastest gumstick SSD yet
Sandisk just launched the SN8100 from its WD_BLACK range, currently the fastest M.2-format (gumstick) drive available. It is a PCIe…
Newcomer Arcfra lands spot in Gartner’s HCI vendor lineup
Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner’s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack…
Huawei unveils full-stack AI data lake platform
Huawei has developed its own data lake software as part of a full-stack approach to providing AI data storage and…
Storage news ticker - May 2
Cerabyte is participating in 2025 OCP EMEA Regional Summit, taking place April 29–30 in Dublin, Ireland. It will be putting…
WD posts sequential disk revenue decline after splitting off Sandisk
Western Digital reported a 31 percent year-on-year revenue increase in its first incarnation as a disk-drive-only company following its spin-out…
Seagate’s spins up disk revenues, though shipments down
Although Seagate's third fiscal 2025 quarter revenues rose almost a third year-on-year, they declined sequentially as supply constraints sent shipments…
Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and…
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark…
Storage suppliers stare down Trump slump after tariff mayhem
Analysis. The latest round of tariff confusion – including a last-minute US Customs exemption for computers, smartphones, and related components,…
Storage news ticker - April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance…
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale,…
ExaGrid posts record Q1 as on-prem backup demand climbs
As the on-premises backup target market grows, so too does ExaGrid – which just posted its best ever Q1. The…
Storage winners and losers in Trump's tariff-happy world
Analysis Trump’s tariffs will affect US companies with multinational supply chain components and finished products imported to America, and products…
Pure Storage scores flashy Meta deal
Analysis: Pure Storage has won a deal to supply its proprietary flash drive technology to Meta, with Wedbush financial analysts…
Infinidat and Veeam push VMware migration to Red Hat OpenShift
Infinidat and Veeam are encouraging VMware migration to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (RHOS-V) by providing immutable backups from a RHOS-V…
Seagate sees fresh spin for NVMe hybrid flash/disk array
A Seagate blog says that fast-access hybrid flash+disk drive arrays are a good fit to AI workload needs because retaining…