HGST Acquires Object Storage Specialist Amplidata
In a bid to boost its software-defined storage portfolio as its pushes deeper into enterprise storage, Western Digital's HGST unit announced a deal to acquire Amplidata, a developer of ...Full Article
Violin Memory Fiddles With Primary Storage
The push to elevate all-flash arrays as the primary storage technology of choice got a boost this week from Violin Memory Inc., which rolled out two new all-flash arrays ...Full Article
Storage Startup Qumulo Raises $40M
An enterprise data storage startup has announced a second funding round along with the addition of industry veterans to its board. Seattle-based Qumulo Inc. bills itself as the next ...Full Article
Flash Startup to Support VMware Storage Push
In the wake of VMware's launch this week of a new generation of enterprise products aimed at promoting adoption of software-defined storage, third-party storage vendors are lining up to ...Full Article
Researchers Put a New Spin on Graphene Chips
Among the post-silicon candidate materials for future chip manufacturing is graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice. One hurdle to the use of graphene as a ...Full Article
Flash Startup NexGen Targets Flash Utilization
NexGen Storage Inc., the flash array specialist spun out earlier this month from SanDisk Corp., unveiled a new hybrid flash array this week along with intelligent caching software designed ...Full Article
Dell Drops Price on All-Flash Storage Arrays
Dell Inc.'s storage unit rolled out a pair of all-flash storage array configurations this week priced as low $25,000 in a bid to overcome cost barriers that have hampered ...Full Article
SanDisk Spins Out Hybrid Storage Unit
SanDisk Corp. said it has completed the spin out of its ioControl unit acquired as part of its deal announced in June 2014 to purchase Fusion-io. The new company ...Full Article
Storage Roadmap Sees 100 TB Drives by ’25
A technology roadmap for the storage industry is forecasting a ten-fold increase in hard drive storage capacity over the next decade as new recording technologies come online to boost ...Full Article
Data Security Concerns Grow Along with Threats
As Sony Pictures learned the hard way this week, the relatively small cost of backing up your data is worth the expense and trouble. Still, a survey released this ...Full Article
