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...
Seagate sees fresh spin for NVMe hybrid flash/disk array
A Seagate blog says that fast-access hybrid flash+disk drive arrays are a good fit to AI workload needs because retaining large datasets solely on SSDs is financially unsustainable for...
Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations)...
SK Hynix takes over rump of Intel NAND biz, as Trump chews out post-Grove...
SK Hynix will complete its $9 billion takeover of Intel’s NAND memory business in the coming weeks, setting the seal on the stumbling US giant’s exit from the flash...