Storage news ticker - 4 December 2025
Filmmaker Joseph DiGiovanna (covered by CNN, Live With Kelly and Mark, and more) has been capturing 1 frame every 30…
VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon
TACC’s Horizon supercomputer is using VAST Data online storage, a Dell caching archive front end, Versity software, and Spectra Logic…
Quantum revenues dip, losses mount in Q2 fiscal '26
Quantum has reported a 12.7 percent drop on revenues to $62.7 million and widening net losses of $46.45 million for…
Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals
Quantum has sped up part-object retrieval from its ActiveScale tape backend with a Ranged Restore feature. It says customers can…
LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut
The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10…
Active Archive Alliance sees three archive tiers
WORM, WORSe and WORN are three archive tiers defined by the Active Archive Alliance, as it sees AI requiring fast…
Why did Hugues Meyrath come back to Quantum?
It wasn’t a basket case, Quantum, far from it, but it was certainly struggling on the edge, and had been…
Quantum hires new Chief Product officer from Index Engines
Restructuring Quantum Corp has hired Geoff Barrall away from Index Engines to be its Chief Product officer, a new position,…
Quantum restructures debt as Raptor tape library secures Veeam Ready status
Quantum is making progress financially and sales-wise with a debt for equity swap and Veeam tape library qualification. The loss-making…
XenData adds ALTO disk archive support
XenData, which sells tape and cloud archive systems, is adding support for ALTO spun-down disk archives so customers can manage…
Quantum loses CFO after just four months in post
Lewis Moorehead has resigned as beleaguered Quantum’s Chief Financial Officer only four months after being appointed to replace the departed…
Storage news round-up - 11 August
Open-source storage hardware supplier 45Drives has a strategic partnership with LINBIT, creators of DRBD and LINSTOR, to deliver fully-integrated, enterprise-grade…
Why LTO-10 fell short on speed and backward compatibility
Analysis. LTO-10 tape was an advance on LTO-9 but not as much as expected with no increase in data I/O…
LTO tape market rebounds in 2024 with 176.5 EB shipped
There was 15.4 percent more LTO tape capacity shipped in 2024 compared to 2023 as growth resumed following three years…
Meta superintelligence push to drive huge demand for storage
Meta is eyeing a massive AI datacenter expansion program with the chosen storage suppliers set for a bonanza. CEO Mark…
Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this…
HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries
UK startup HoloMem is developing a ribbon-based cartridge and drive that uses multi-layer holographic storage with a 50+ year life…
Quantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp's Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an…