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

BackBlaze has reported "a higher-than-typical failure rate among some of our 12TB Seagate drives" at its cloud storage facility. In a recent hard drive stats report, Yev Pusin, BackBlaze’s director of marketing, notes Seagate’s ST12000NM0007 12TB drive has a 3.32 per cent annualised failure...

NetApp Q3 earnings fall short of Wall Street expectations

NetApp shares fell 13 per cent last night on the back of disappointing third quarter results and lower guidance for the next...

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

Dell EMC PowerProtect arrays (formerly branded Data Domain) have gained copy data management functionality via Actifio, through a deal prompted by an...

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

V.2 of Nutanix’s Karbon front end wrapper for Kubernetes will enable Kubernetes clusters to run in a network-free isolation zone.

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

IBM has launched faster FlashSystem arrays, in a move that also sees it simplify its block access storage array line-up.

Fungible aims to slay the CPU bogeyman with composable microprocessor

Fungible Inc, a US composable systems startup, wants to front-end every system resource with its DPU microprocessors, offloading security and storage functions from server CPUs. The company has not...

Why fast object storage is poised for the mainstream

Four years ago, Pure Storage pioneered fast object storage with the launch of its FlashBlade system. Today fast object storage is ready to go mainstream, with six vendors touting the technology.

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

Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles will need black box facilities to help with accident cause analysis in the case of a crash. They may also need a 'reverse' content delivery network (CDN) to...

Snowflake whips ups funding blizzard with Salesforce

Snowflake Computing has taken in $479m in a surprise G-series funding with Salesforce as co-lead investor in the cloud data warehousing startup. The monster $12.4bn valuation is more than three times higher...
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Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service

Slim pickings for this week's enterprise storage round-up. But let's kick off Couchbase making its NoSQL database available as a cloud-based service....

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

The flash assault is progressing to the point where disk drives could will disappear from most data centres in a few years....

Nexsan adds QLC flash to storage array line-up

Nexsan today announced a dense flash addition to its mid-range E-Series array and also added fast RoCE access and blockchain security to...

Compute-in-storage startup NGD raises $20m

Compute-in-storage pioneer NGD has raised $20m in a C-series round to develop production of its technology and invest in sales and marketing.