Seagate pushes back against SSD dominance claims

Chris Mellor -
HDD maker Seagate wants us to understand three truths about the myth of SSDs replacing disk drives: SSD prices will…
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Baffle enables computation on encrypted Amazon RDS and Aurora data

Chris Mellor -
Baffle is providing enterprise-grade data security for Amazon’s RDS and Aurora databases, preventing malware actors from accessing any raw data.…

Storage news ticker – May 1

Chris Mellor -
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: "Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead…

Commvault surpasses forecasts with strong subscriber growth

Chris Mellor -
Solid customer and subscription growth sent Commvault quarterly revenues past forecasts and set the scene for continued growth. Revenues in…

Tiger Tech gets a head transplant

Chris Mellor -
Tiger Technology has a new CEO and full-time COO as its founder looks looks to expand the company across four…

Demystifying multicloud complexity with a universal storage layer

Caitlin Gordon, Dell Technologies -
COMMISSIONED: All organizations today use information technology (IT) to deliver their value. While the intensity and depth of reliance on…

A guide: The ‘best’ storage devices for the main applications

Anthony Savvas -
A recently published guide has listed what it says are the best storage devices for multiple uses. The guide, from…

Dell pumps power higher for PowerProtect products

Chris Mellor -
Dell has added faster PowerProtect appliances, enabled PowerProtect to back up all-flash PowerMax arrays, and introduced an AI copilot to…

Commvault extends Cleanroom Recovery to bolster ransomware defense

Chris Mellor -
Recovery from ransomware attacks needs to be tested and Commvault's aiming its Cloud Cleanroom tech at those who are looking…

SK hynix reports record Q1 with soaring demand for HBM chips

Chris Mellor -
SK hynix saw first 2024 quarter revenues soar 144 percent as demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips rocketed. The DRAM…

WD CEO: 'Clearly, HDD plays a big role in the AI storage life cycle'

Chris Mellor -
Western Digital’s third quarter results were boosted by a strong rise in disk revenues along with increased demand for SSDs.…

Veeam founders launch backup appliance in UK channel

Anthony Savvas -
Object First, the developer of a “ransomware-proof” backup storage appliance, purpose-built for Veeam, has named its first channel partner for…

Kioxia unveils higher-performance 5G flash storage devices

Anthony Savvas -
Kioxia America has launched the latest generation of its Universal Flash Storage (UFS) embedded flash memory devices, designed to maximise…

Storage news ticker - 25 April 2024

Chris Mellor -
Data connector company CData Software has appointed of Adam DeMichele as its CRO, Marie Forshaw as SVP of Product Marketing…

IBM takes on Dell, HPE, Pure in FlashSystem fight

Chris Mellor -
The latest IBM FlashSystem 5300 array has a PCIe 4 bus, computational drives, and Ice Lake CPUs, accompanied by a…

Veritas talks up AI-driven data protection capabilities

Chris Mellor -
Veritas has revealed that its NetBackup and Alta Data Protection products include defence against threats from compromised user credentials. An…

Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump

Chris Mellor -
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline…

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