Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale

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Bloomberg reports Japanese multi-national conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. is aiming to sell off its Hitachi Vantara data storage subsidiary for up…
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Samsung shipping fast and small PCIe Gen5 bus 4TB mini-gumstick drive

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Samsung announced its PM9E1 gumstick drive in October 2024 with 512 GB, 1, and 2 TB capacities. It’s now shipping…

Western Digital blows hard disk drive future wide open

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Western Digital is qualifying 40 TB hard disk drives, has outlined a roadmap to 100 TB, and is announcing two…

Hitachi Vantara warns poor data foundations are stalling AI projects

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Hitachi Vantara data infrastructure research shows that failings in data management, governance, and security are stalling AI projects. The company’s…

Commvault pitches Geo Shield for sovereign data protection

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Commvault says sovereign data protection has three core elements: where data is stored, who controls access to it, and who…

Storage news ticker – February 2

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Data trust company Ataccama has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Data Quality Solutions, 2026. Ataccama received the highest score in…

Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate

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Western Digital is making more than double the profits from its shipped disk drive exabytes than Seagate. An analyst asked…

Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold

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Sandisk resoundingly beat its high-end $2.65 billion guidance with revenues of $3.03 billion in its second fiscal 2026 quarter, and…

Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance

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Disk drive maker Western Digital beat the $3 billion high end of its guidance with a highly-profitable second fiscal 2026…

Apache Iceberg gets cloud-based ETL pipeline 

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Startup Etleap is introducing a cloud-based Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) pipeline for getting data into Apache Iceberg tables. Apache Iceberg is an…

Samsung Electronics triples profit as HBM revenues rocket up

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Samsung Electronics’  ₩93.8 trillion ($65.58 billion) revenues for its final 2o25 quarter was up 24% year/year but its profits tripled,…

Pure Storage gets storage role in Nokia RA for telcos

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Pure Storage’s FlashArray is the storage anchor in Nokia’s reference architecture for global telcos buying its cloud-native network functions (CNFs).…

VDURA offers to undercut all-flash rivals amid SSD price surge

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VDURA is offering a Flash Relief Program whereby it will match or beat VAST Data and WEKA all-flash array quotes on…

High-bandwidth memory v4 supply takes shape

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Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are gearing up to supply v4 high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to Nvidia and other AI accelerator…

SK Hynix posts record year as HBM boom supercharges profits

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SK Hynix revenues for the final 2025 quarter rose 63.3 percent year-on-year to ₩32.83 trillion ($22.93 billion) with net profit…

Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges

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Seagate surpassed the high end of the prior quarter’s $2.8 billion revenue outlook with $2.83 billion for its second fiscal 2026…

SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle

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SK Hynix is looking to restructure Solidigm, its acquired Intel NAND fab and SSD business, and invest in AI-related US…

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