Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and NVMe is rising
Interview: We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them…
VDURA adds V5000 all-flash node for faster mass data access
HPC and AI parallel file system storage supplier VDURA has added a high-capacity all-flash storage node to its V5000 hardware…
Chinese scientists spin molecular hard disk drive idea
Chinese scientists have devised an organic so-called molecular hard drive for archiving with multi-bit encrypted storage molecules written and read…
Western Digital, Sandisk begin separate trading after split
Western Digital and Sandisk started trading their stocks as separate businesses on February 24, with Western Digital shares losing 2.9…
Used Seagate drives sold as new through online retail channels
Used Seagate EXOS drives presented as new are being sold through online retail channels, duping both buyers and sellers. The…
DDN on files, objects and AI training and inference
Interview DDN has been supplying high speed file access with its EXAScaler Lustre parallel file system software for many years.…
StorONE advances auto-tiering with AI-driven TierONE
StorONE is offering updated storage tiering with AI-powered TierONE software and improved data protection with SnapONE. The company claims customers…
Lenovo reports third straight quarter of double-digit growth
Lenovo reported its third consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, with all three business units contributing at double-digit levels. Yuanqing…
How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language…
It's HAMR time for WD as it outlines drive migration plans
Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing…
Sputtering Seagate, storage giant wants to buy Intevac
Seagate plans on spending $119 million to buy Intevac, a maker of sputtering tools used to coat disk drive platters…
A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era
All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s…
Backblaze reveals best and worst disk drives with 2024 failure rate stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report. The company had 301,120 hard drives…
VDURA talks up energy-efficient HPC systems for utilities
VDURA, a specialist in HPC data infrastructure and management solutions, is to highlight its next generation data platform at the…
Sony quits recordable Blu-ray disc market
February will see Sony end the production of recordable Blu-ray discs, with no replacement for business users. In a recent…
Western Digital’s disk-driven quarter spins revenues higher
A 41 percent year-on-year disk-based revenue rise for Western Digital’s second fiscal 2025 quarter kept it ahead of Seagate in…
Storage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry…
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company's storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the…