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 of more or less level pegging after a pandemic...
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 Zuckerberg announced on Facebook: "We're going to invest hundreds of...
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 month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff,...
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 span, and can be inserted as a rack shelf...
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 SEC filing by the beleaguered business. The 8-K, filed...
Quantum accounting issues delay FY 2025 results
Quantum can’t file its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results because of accounting problems similar to those it experienced 18 months ago.
The company provides StorNext data management software,...
Spectra Logic to archive Rubin Observatory’s 500 PB cosmic time-lapse
The first images have come from the Vera C. Rubin telescope in Chile showing an unprecedented view of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky and the start of a ten-year...
Quantum swaps CEO after debt buyout and deepening losses
Jamie Lerner, the chairman, CEO, and president of tape and storage systems vendor Quantum, has resigned and been replaced by part-time board director Hugues Meyrath.
Beleaguered Quantum took a big...
Latest generation LTO-10 tape arrives at Spectra Logic
Tape library and systems vendor Spectra Logic announced LTO-10 support across its tape library product set, but IBM’s tape drive shrinks the expected capacity and loses backwards compatibility.
LTO-10 is...
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...
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...
Auwau lifts lid on multi-tenant BaaS provisioning and billing
Auwau provisions multi-tenant backup services for MSPs and departmental enterprise with automated billing and stats.
It is a tiny Danish firm, just three people, with a mature Cloutility software stack...