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 using an atomic force microscope.
The notion is presented in...
Storage news ticker – February 28
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze announced results for Q4 2024 and the full year. Q4 revenues were $33.8 million, up 18 percent, with a GAAP loss of $14.4...
Quantum reports steep losses, says better times lie ahead
Data storage supplier and protector Quantum reported a revenue upturn in its third fiscal quarter of 2025 and a massive loss as it clears the books and looks ahead.
For...
Optera Data stores data in fluorescence with spectra holes
University of South Australia researcher Dr Nicolas Riesen is working on research that opens the door to potential archival storage that he believes could be ten times cheaper than...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...
Spectra Logic optical SAS switch expands tape connectivity
Spectra Logic has an optical SAS switch supporting 100 meter distances between servers and tape drives, providing connectivity cheaper than Fiber Channel.
Its OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch supports the SAS-4...
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 pipeline and intelligent observability, processing up to 1 TB/month...
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 company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...
GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...
XenData ships hybrid archive appliance
XenData has taken the wraps off its new X10 Media Archive Appliance, which connects to one or two external LTO drives and can manage an “unlimited number” of offline...
BMC modernizes mainframe storage with cloud-first solutions
The new Cloud Data Sets feature in BMC Software’s AMI Cloud Data platform “transforms” mainframe data management by providing direct access to cloud object storage, without requiring modifications to...
Storage Ticker – December 16 2024
Seattle-based Amperity has launched a Customer Data Cloud – an AI-powered setup designed to help users transform raw customer data in a data warehouse into actionable business assets through...