Infinidat celebrates a very good 2021
Enterprise storage array supplier Infinidat reported 40 per cent year-on-year bookings growth in 2021.
This included an end-of year boost, with 68 per cent...
Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
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Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Storage news ticker – January 13
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Data protector Catalogic Software announced general availability for its latest DPX software, with enhancements to agentless backups for virtual environments, cloud archiving, and...
Storage news ticker – January 10
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According to the UK Guardian, EU police agency Europol will have to delete at least 4PB of...
Abbamatic trio sings MAMR mia – here we go again
A three-way collaboration between Showa Denko, TDK and Toshiba has resulted in a demonstration of MAMR recording technology showing that 30+ terabyte disk drives are possible.
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
Matt Fawcett
Storage news ticker – December 22
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iXsystems has introduced TrueCharts, a first app catalog for TrueNAS SCALE, its scale-out storage and hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It includes Kubernetes for deploying...
Storage news ticker December –14
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Ascend.io says Snowflake users can put workloads on autopilot with Ascend’s Data Automation Cloud. This automates data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability...
Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the...
Learning from history: QNAP’s ULINK AI tool predicts SATA drive failures
Taipei-based QNAP has a machine learning-based SATA disk and SSD drive failure predictor for its NAS systems that means you can replace the drives before they fail.
Show us what you got: Showa Denko opens Toshiba door to 30TB+ drives
Showa Denko (SDK) has developed a hard disk drive recording medium that will support Toshiba producing 30TB-plus drives using a Microwave Assisted Switching-Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAS-MAMR) technology...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of...
Western Digital: Oh HAMR, how I do love thee
Western Digital is focussing more on HAMR as its breakthrough technology to into the 30TB and beyond disk drive area, with no flash-disk cost crossover for at...
The need for speed: Seagate’s 20TB drives take on WD with a performance edge
Following Western Digital’s September launch of two 20TB drives, Seagate has introduced two 20TB drives of its own: an Exos X20 and an IronWolf Pro, both transferring...
Infinidat: we’re boosting our channel, even as others retreat
Infinidat, the memory-cached high-end array shipper, says it has been — and is — building up its channel partners and program while competitors are reducing their channel...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business...
DNA storage and science: archiving unreality
DNA storage researchers have devised a neat way to record events inside cells down to a one-minute granularity, but are wildly off-beam when predicting this could become useful...