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 its ceramic-on-glass storage to the test - by boiling...
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 of the Sandisk NAND and SSD business on February...
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 down.
Revenues in the quarter ended March 28 were 30.5...
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 better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice.
The...
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 data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
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, followed by a social media post from President Trump...
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 compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
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, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
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 company supplies deduplicating backup appliances with a non-deduped landing zone...
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 from foreign suppliers imported to the US. They will...
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 seeing this as “an extremely positive outcome for PSTG...
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 system using Infinidat storage to an InfiniGuard target system.
The...