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Blocks & Files news and analysis dating back to 2019

StorONE buys Storage Switzerland

Fujitsu Labs quadruples LTFS tape storage read speed

Nexsan turbo-charges the BEAST array with QLC flash

Pure Storage lays off staffers

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Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and more

Ransomware protection is killer app for Datrium DRaaS

Pure’s FlashArray//X R3 is an Optane cacher

Pure Storage rises above enterprise gloom to post record revenues

Dell merges server and storage sales teams to combat enterprise slowdown

Nutanix revenue rise fails to impress Wall St

Exclusive: Hitachi Vantara makes ‘significant’ layoffs, cites mature global storage market

Qumulo adds encryption to Hybrid File Software

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Backup and recovery users love Cohesity, Rubrik and Veaam more than most, according to Gartner survey

Compute Express Link triumphs in the post-PCIe bus war

Infinidat exhibits six exabytes – good that!

Scality preps scale-out file system on Azure Blob Storage

Rubrik claims $600m revenue run-rate

Toshiba selects Showa Denko platters for MAMR HDDs

Kioxia NVMe SSDs use PCie 4.0 for big speed increase

Commvault looms large on hybrid cloud data protection radar screen

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HPE Primera gains Veeam V10 support

SK hynix sends 800 workers home to self-quarantine against coronavirus

Cohesity branches out data management software to ROBO and the edge

Wasabi intros price-fixing – in a good way – for cost-conscious cloud storage customers

Cloudian and Veeam build ransomware data recovery service atop Amazon S3 Object Lock

WD touts lower-capacity flash drive for smartphone makers

Egnyte customers seek unified collaboration and governance platform

Google hybridises six storage vendors for the Anthos Kubernetes cloud

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Dell EMC touts data centre in a box for edge storage and fast analytics

Veeam Availability Suite hits the tenth grade

The flash revolution will be delayed – due to an unexpected strong demand for enterprise hard drives

Chinese NAND and DRAM fabs escape coronavirus damage

Your occasional storage digest, featuring mainframes, HAMR and a data protection deluge

BackBlaze reports unexpectedly high failure rate for one of Seagate’s 12TB drives

NetApp Q3 earnings fall short of Wall Street expectations

Pester power! One big customer prompts Dell EMC PowerProtect systems to work with Actifio

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Nutanix to run Karbon 2.0 Kubernetes clusters in no-network isolation zone

So long, farewell, Storwize. IBM melds storage array line under FlashSystems brand

Fungible aims to slay the CPU bogeyman with composable microprocessor

Why fast object storage is poised for the mainstream

‘Reverse CDN’ is huge storage vendor opportunity for self-driving cars

Snowflake whips ups funding blizzard with Salesforce

Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service

Hard disk drives will disappear from your data centre – unless you work for a hyperscaler

Nexsan adds QLC flash to storage array line-up

Compute-in-storage startup NGD raises $20m

Who’s that walking across the green? It’s Dell EMC, preparing to take its midrange pitch shot

Seagate reports quarterly earnings – and revenues are as flat as a spinning platter

Is it breakout time for Rubrik and Cohesity? Wikibon suggests it might be

Samsung-backed key:value crew Stellus drops veil on new tech, will have to work hard to foil the fast filer few

Stick that in your container: MayaData gets $26m, DataCore tech and resell boost for its K8s storage

We object: Quantum snaps up Western Digital’s ActiveScale business

Cohesity loses cohesion: Rapidly diversifying firm has an identity problem

Autonomous vehicle data storage: We grill self-driving car experts about sensors, clouds … and robo taxis

Flash flood is over, says WD as it reveals flatlined revenues

Quantum squeezes out first profit in 18 quarters

Western Digital and Kioxia score triple-digit 3D-NAND layer count

Cloudian goes Splunk and Hitachi buys ML metadata firm

Newbie container app data wrangling firm Kasten climbs mountain with K10

Back on Nasdaq: Quantum exits de-listed underworld

Upturn eludes Commvault as Q3 revenue drops

Coronavirus outbreak: Which NAND and disk suppliers are at risk?

Intel flags up delay for Optane 3D, gen 2 delivery slowdown

HyperFlex becomes mates with K8s: No need to go through vSphere first

Come to MAMR! Western Digital unfurls HDD tech roadmap

Iguazio emits storage-integrated parallelised, real-time AI/machine learning workflows

Tabletop storage: Georgia Tech looks to SMASH an exabyte into DNA ‘sugar cube’

Mind the air gap: Quantum reinforces tape defences against ransomware

Universal memory candidate technology

Isilon supports containers, larger files, faster Azure compute access and cloud-based management

Mainframe cycle drives IBM storage revenues upwards

NAS to NAS storage migration is nasty… but there’s a better way, claims Datadobi

The Ghost in the self-driving storage machine (OK, it’s a car)

Nebulon gets less nebulous, aims to replace SAN and hyperconverged storage

Quantum launches halfling NVMe video production array

Dell EMC’s Secure Remote Services recovers itself from own outage

Data storage estimates for intelligent vehicles vary widely

Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Red Hat, Nexsan, and Scality

Forsa taps into Optane direct mode to turbocharge apps. No code change required

VAST Data quick-fills Kubernetes containers with file data

The eyeopening multi-billion-dollar merry-go-round of Insight Partners, Veeam – and their one-time beau N2WS

Hard disk drive shipments fell 50% between 2012 and 2019

Portworx takes Kubernetes magic carpet ride into enterprise data centres

WekaIO pulls alongside Dell EMC Isilon at Genomics England

Dremio: let’s kill all the data warehouses

WekaIO trims sales force

Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Pavilion Data, HPE, Supermicro and more

Google launches instant access Cloud Archive

Insight Partners buys Veeam for $5bn

Intel adds PCIe 4.0 support to Optane SSDs

Commvault tackles endemic under-performance with sales exec refresh

Kioxia fab fire update – two week hit to NAND flash production

MinIO earns Cisco validation for Data Intelligence Platform

Kioxia suffers flash fab fire – foundry makes 3-4% of world’s NAND memory

Hitachi Vantara targets solution sales with new army of consultants

Seagate touts Lyve Drive Mobile System for business

Micron samples faster DRAM with DDR5 DIMMs

Samsung’s Stellus Technologies emerges from stealth. Soon…

Seagate lights up gamer SSDs

Let’s start the New Year storage round-up with NAND passing the 3-digit layer count