Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions
Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the latter.
Western Digital, under activist investor engagement from Elliott Management,...
Huawei developing magneto-electric drive for cold storage
As we wrote in a storage news ticker, Huawei has announced that it has an OceanStor Arctic device for storing archive data.
A presentation at MWC24 in Barcelona by Huawei’s...
Storage news ticker – February 28
German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data in the Azure public cloud's Blob Storage Archive Tier....
Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul
Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened since then?
Hitachi Vantara was the US-based storage and IT...
Professor Onur Mutlu and team win Huawei OlympusMons award for storage research
Computer science Professor Onur Mutlu has won a Huawei OlympusMons award for far-reaching research on data placement tech and NAND chips.
The OlympusMons awards started in 2019 to recognize and...
Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...
NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage
SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based public cloud long-term retention.
StorageGRID is NetApp’s S3-based object storage...
Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management
Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product announced, and advanced optical storage in its roadmap.
Rimage describes...
Storage news ticker – February 4
Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP). MISA members have...
Storage news ticker – January 29, 2024
Data protector Acronis announced the integration of its Advanced Security and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions. Its users gain access to mission-critical EDR capabilities at no additional cost....
Western Digital roller coaster continues as Seagate brings down the HAMR
The disk/SSD downcycle low point has been reached for Western Digital with its second successive sequential revenue growth quarter.
Revenues in the second quarter of its fiscal 2024, ended December...
GPU-fueled Nyriad is up for sale
Nyriad, the company offering GPU-powered storage controller technology, is up for sale.
A memo from CEO Derek Dicker reads: “After thoroughly considering and exploring various options, the Nyriad board has...