Micron strikes deal with Silvaco to optimize fabs

Antony Savvas -
Silvaco Group has enhanced its partnership with flash memory and chipset maker Micron Technology. Silvaco is a provider of TCAD…
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Kioxia launches 1 TB SD memory cards for demanding multimedia

Antony Savvas -
Kioxia Europe has unveiled the EXCERIA G2 SD memory card series, offering capacities of up to 1 TB. The “next…

Storage news ticker - 19 April 2024

Chris Mellor -
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data…

RAAAM wants to shrink SRAM on-chip memory

Chris Mellor -
Israeli startup RAAAM Memory Technologies has announced $4 million in seed funding to develop a System-on-Chip (SoC) SRAM replacement. Robert…

Databricks boasts about its fast European growth

Antony Savvas -
Lakehouse supplier Databricks says it has seen over 70 percent year-over-year growth for its EMEA region business in its latest…

Nasuni gets into bed with Microsoft’s Copilot

Chris Mellor -
Nasuni customers can now integrate their data stores and workflows with customized Copilot assistants. Microsoft’s Copilot is a GenAI chatbot…

Qumulo launches Cloud Native file system on AWS

Chris Mellor -
Scale-out parallel file system supplier Qumulo now runs natively in AWS. The company has announced the initial private availability of…

Kioxia plans IPO to tackle $5.8B debt amid industry shakeups

Chris Mellor -
NAND and SSD manufacturer Kioxia is preparing an IPO to recapitalize itself as payment of a ¥900 billion ($5.8 billion)…

Hitachi Vantara brings VSP One hybrid cloud storage to AWS

Chris Mellor -
Hitachi Vantara's Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), a unified hybrid cloud storage product, has moved into the realm of…

Commvault acquires cloud resiliency startup Appranix

Chris Mellor -
Commvault is increasing its cloud resiliency credentials by buying Appranix – a seven-year-old cloud app resiliency startup. Appranix has developed…

Samsung reportedly plans to leapfrog to 430-layer NAND in 2025

Chris Mellor -
Samsung is planning to bypass the 300-layer 3D NAND level and go straight to 430-layer flash after a 290-layer product…

CTERA adds data theft honeypot decoy

Chris Mellor -
CTERA has added a decoy file and attack detection facility to its Ransom Protect offering. The enterprise developer provides geo-distributed…

Leil Storage trumpets green ‘hyperscaler’ backup for on-prem environments

Antony Savvas & Chris Mellor -
Leil Storage, a startup owned by Estonian storage systems builder DIAWAY, is extending its sustainability credentials in the second half…

Micron unveils QLC NAND SSD with more than 200 layers

Chris Mellor -
Micron has launched a 2500 QLC NAND internal fit client product that’s faster than its 2550 TLC predecessor, despite TLC…

Hammerspace erasure codes Global Data Environment

Chris Mellor -
Hammerspace has added erasure coding to its data orchestrating Global Data Environment software, enabling it to use less overhead when…

Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed

Chris Mellor -
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and…

Backblaze introduces Event Notifications for enhanced workflow automation

Chris Mellor -
Backblaze has added Event Notification data change alerts to its cloud storage so that such events can be dealt with…

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