Western Digital spinner boss drops tape archive invasion bomb
Blocks & Files was briefed by Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, EVP and GM of Western Digital’s hard disk drive (HDD) business, who suggested WD could move into the tape archive market...
Microfluidic channel SlipChip DNA storage is glacially slow
Chinese scientists have stored and retrieved data in DNA on a single electrode instead of using complicated chemical laboratory equipment for synthesising and manipulating DNA in the storage process....
HPE’s revenue growth anaemia versus profits on steroids
HPE grew revenues in its fourth fiscal 2021 quarter at an anaemic two per cent rate — compared to Dell’s 21 per cent rise in its most recent quarter...
GigaOM takes notice of DPUs
Data Processing Units (DPUs) help organisations build denser, faster, more efficient and cost-effective IT infrastructures, with the goal of providing an overall lower total cost of ownership.
This is the...
Peter Pans – teenage startups with no filed IPO plans
What is a startup? What do you call a startup that refuses to grow up and have an IPO — a Peter Pan?
Is Nebulon, a four-year-old company that has...
Storage news ticker – November 19
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AT SC’21 Dell EMC announced new and updated Dell Technologies Validated Designs available for Siemens Simcenter Star CCM+. They provide multi-physics CFD simulation on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge...
And so it comes to pass: Gen-Z will be folded into CXL
In the tense game of poker whose stakes are defining the component interconnect post-PCIe, the Gen-Z consortium has folded. It will be absorbed into the Computer Express Link (CXL)...
You’ll go glassy eyed: 5-dimensional storage in silica glass
University of Southampton optical scientists say that a 127mm diameter silica glass disk could store 500TB of data using a five-dimensional recording technology.
This builds on earlier Project Silica research...
Yes, Intel, Optane is loss-making – but don’t give up
Storage consultant Chris Evans responded to our Optane-making-a-loss story with a tweet thread, pointing out that, although Optane revenues are fairly low and it is losing money, “Intel is...
Intel Optane losses laid bare in SEC report
Intel’s 10-Q SEC filing for the third 2021 quarter ended September 25 reveals its Optane business lost $473 million in the first nine months of 2020.
The 10-Q contains a...
Ditch the switch: stealth-exiting Rockport Networks says it has a better way
Rockport Networks has exited stealth with a switchless datacentre network product that it claims can carry data traffic faster and with better latency than switched networks, yet is a...
Totenpass stores data on a gold-plated nickel slab
Totenpass, a New York state company run by a contrarian investor, gold trader, jeweller, and bitcoin miner, is beta-testing a system for storing data for 100 years on credit...