It's HAMR time for WD as it outlines drive migration plans
Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing…
Sputtering Seagate, storage giant wants to buy Intevac
Seagate plans on spending $119 million to buy Intevac, a maker of sputtering tools used to coat disk drive platters…
A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era
All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s…
Backblaze reveals best and worst disk drives with 2024 failure rate stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report. The company had 301,120 hard drives…
VDURA talks up energy-efficient HPC systems for utilities
VDURA, a specialist in HPC data infrastructure and management solutions, is to highlight its next generation data platform at the…
Sony quits recordable Blu-ray disc market
February will see Sony end the production of recordable Blu-ray discs, with no replacement for business users. In a recent…
Western Digital’s disk-driven quarter spins revenues higher
A 41 percent year-on-year disk-based revenue rise for Western Digital’s second fiscal 2025 quarter kept it ahead of Seagate in…
Storage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry…
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company's storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the…
Seagate hitting HAMR makeover hard as forecast disappoints
Cloud providers purchased more high-capacity disk drives in Q4 2024, pushing Seagate revenues up nearly 50 percent. Seagate revenues rose…
GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is…
Seagate sampling 36 TB HAMR disk drive
Seagate is pushing out its capacity leadership position on Toshiba and Western Digital by sampling an Exos M 36 TB…
Western Digital CFO resigns ahead of company split
Western Digital CFO Wissam Jabre is resigning effective February 28, after the company splits into separate disk drive and SSD…
MariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push
The open-source MariaDB database now has a vector search capability, allowing customers' businesses to access a single, complete database supporting…
Lenovo goes shopping, plonks Infinidat in the basket
Lenovo is buying privately-owned enterprise block array storage supplier Infinidat for an undisclosed amount. Systems supplier Lenovo's storage line-up is…
Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business
Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion and aiming…
ExaGrid claims 4,590 customers as it points to growth
ExaGrid claims it is fielding "record bookings" and revenue – although as a privately held company it provides no comparative figures…
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI…