Gartner’s file and object MQ drops Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum
Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum have been dropped from Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for File and Object Storage Platforms, while VAST Data has moved from challenger to leader...
Western Digital opens separate websites for HDD and flash businesses
Western Digital has advanced the previously announced split between its HDD and flash businesses by launching separate customer websites. The separation aims to improve operational focus and market agility...
Micron reveals MLPerf Storage benchmark results for SSDs
SSD supplier Micron announced MLPerf v1.0 Storage Benchmark results for its 7.68 TB 9550 NVMe SSD, saying it offers the performance required to support a large number of accelerators and AI...
WEKA report finds storage a challenge for AI projects
An S&P Global Market Intelligence report commissioned by WEKA found that storage and data management issues are a problem area for enterprises implementing AI projects.
The second annual Global Trends in...
Seagate livens up Lyve Cloud
Seagate has added cost-saving and data access features, plus new geographic regions, to its Lyve Cloud object storage service.
Lyve Cloud is an S3-compatible public cloud data storage service based...
Rubrik reports 35% revenue growth for Q2 2025
Rubrik grew quarterly revenues by 35 percent in Q2 of its fiscal 2025 to $204.9 million, and reported a $176.9 million net loss.
The Palo Alto-based biz sells a combination...
Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives
Microsoft is using robots to take dead disk drives apart and recycle the parts as part of its e-waste reduction efforts.
Currently hard disk drives at the end of their...
DNA tech could store thousands of laptops’ data in a device the size of...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and North Carolina State universities have developed DNA storage and computing technology that "could put a thousand laptops' worth of data into DNA-based storage that's...
SK hynix targets AI datacenters with industry’s first 1c DDR5 memory
DRAM and NAND fabricator SK hynix has revealed the industry's first 16Gb DDR5 memory system using a 1c node – the sixth generation of the 10nm process, building on...
US colo LightEdge offers single tenant Nutanix cloud
US Nutanix users can get a single-tenant cloud just for their workloads from LightEdge, eliminating noisy neighbor resource-limiting problems.
LightEdge is a US-based cloud service and colocation datacenter provider with...
Western Digital flash spinoff valuation could mirror Solidigm’s
Western Digital is spinning off its NAND and SSD business, which could be valued similarly to Solidigm, says Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson.
Disk drive and SSD manufacturer Western Digital is...
Storage news ticker – August 14 2024
The Active Archive Alliance released a report, "How Active Archives Support Modern AI Strategies," saying its members' products could be used as active archives for AI users. Get a...