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StreamFast eSSD and the Open Flash Platform

StreamFast eSSD and the Open Flash Platform

Simplyblock provides Postgres Git-style branching

Simplyblock provides Postgres Git-style branching

IBM refreshes FlashSystem lineup with faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays

IBM refreshes FlashSystem lineup with faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays

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Storage news ticker – 9 February 2026

Storage news ticker – 9 February 2026

OFP’s data server killers aiming for AI system scalability and efficiency nirvana

OFP’s data server killers aiming for AI system scalability and efficiency nirvana

StreamFast: Stream arbitrary length data to SSDs with device-assigned addresses and no FTL

StreamFast: Stream arbitrary length data to SSDs with device-assigned addresses and no FTL

VAST Data plans funding round so early stockholders can get cash

VAST Data plans funding round so early stockholders can get cash

MinIO plugs Apache Iceberg tables directly into AIStor

MinIO plugs Apache Iceberg tables directly into AIStor

DDN appoints vice chairman amid enterprise AI expansion

DDN appoints vice chairman amid enterprise AI expansion

Intel and Softbank aim ZAM at HBM

Intel and Softbank aim ZAM at HBM

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Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale

Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale

Samsung shipping fast and small PCIe Gen5 bus 4TB mini-gumstick drive

Samsung shipping fast and small PCIe Gen5 bus 4TB mini-gumstick drive

Western Digital blows hard disk drive future wide open

Western Digital blows hard disk drive future wide open

Hitachi Vantara warns poor data foundations are stalling AI projects

Hitachi Vantara warns poor data foundations are stalling AI projects

Storage news ticker – February 2

Storage news ticker – February 2

Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold

Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold

Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance

Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance

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

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

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Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges

Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges

SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle

SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle

Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures

Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures

Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth

Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth

VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe capacity

VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe capacity

Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud

Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud

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Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors

Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors

Block storage has a role in AI training, says Lightbits Labs

Block storage has a role in AI training, says Lightbits Labs

Storage news ticker – 23 January

Storage news ticker – 23 January

Hammerspace appoints new sales head

Hammerspace appoints new sales head

Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives

VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives

Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins

Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins

From AI Ambition to AI Production: Escaping the AI Pilot Trap

From AI Ambition to AI Production: Escaping the AI Pilot Trap

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A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead

A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead

Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab

Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab

Storage News Ticker – 15 January

Storage News Ticker – 15 January

Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite

Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite

Nasuni’s latest exec reshuffle

Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage

VAST Data’s Flash Reclaim attacks competitors’ installed bases

Storage news ticker – 12 January

Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes

Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?

Rubrik’s booming base offering and two side bets

Sandisk and high-bandwidth flash efforts

Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW

Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs

Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs

Storage Ticker – 6 January 2026

Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs

DDN says Lustre-based EXAScaler remains central despite Infinia push

Veeam CTO Niraj Tolia steps back into advisory role

Project Silica’s glass storage archive tech progress

Project Silica’s glass storage archive tech progress

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

Storage news ticker – December 18

Micron rides HBM surge to record quarter

JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

Databricks valued at $138B after $4B funding round

Cohesity deepens Google Cloud tie-up for AI and cyber-resilience

Pure Storage and Hitachi Vantara lead GigaOm’s Primary Storage Radar rankings

Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters

Data warehousing in the AI era starts with sovereignty

Nutanix provides tranche of sovereign cloud updates across its software portfolio