2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (495+ words) BackBlaze published its 2025 Year-End Drive Stats report analyzing the performance of 344,196 hard drives across 30 models. In the last 2025 quarter the drive honor roll was: WDC WUH722626ALE6L4 26TB: 1 failure." Red flags were raised over the annual failure rate (AFR) for 3 drives: The Seagate…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1057+ words) Hammerspace founder and EEO David Flynn wants to collapse the data plane into silicon, with zero-DRAM and FTL-free SSDS, and enable sealed, submerged and orbiting data centers in space. He's set up a StreamFast business to promote this concept and…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (344+ words) Software RAID supplier Xinnor has designed an all-flash NAS filer for AI around its own RAID stack, the XFS file system and an RDMA data pump. Xinnor CEO Dmitry Livshits said: "xiNAS is designed to make NFS a performance enabler…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (244+ words) How would StreamFast eSSD drives fit into the Open Flash Platform with the absence of storage servers?" StreamFast is focussed on developing new style SSDs which have external data server functionality running inside then and which store arbitrary-length data strings…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (415+ words) Supply shortages from the AI datacenter boom have already impacted the DRAM and NAND markets. Now they're coming to NOR flash as well. EEtimes reports that as demand for AI servers rises, so too does demand for the NOR flash…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (544+ words) IBM has updated its all-flash FlashSystem family, replacing the 5300, 7300, and 9500 products with faster and more capacious 5600, 7600, and 9600 models, and added a natural language FlashSystem.ai admin agent that helps provide autonomous operations. IBM is focusing on AI Agent-enabled administration for…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (785+ words) Massively scalable, Low-latency, real-time'NoSQL database supplier Aerospike added'Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)'simplifying the protection of personally identifiable information (PII). To deploy native DDM, Aerospike administrators simply apply a rule to mask data for all users or machines except those explicitly granted…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (283+ words) VAST Data's Amplify is a formal program designed to assess a customer's installed NVMe SSDs and determine whether VAST's claimed lower-overhead data protection and more efficient data reduction can recover stranded capacity, helping customers work around SSD supply shortages and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (590+ words) The Open Flash Platform (OFP) group want to kill data servers and enable massive scale AI hardware/software systems with ten times the density of existing file-based AI storage, and using a tenth of the power. The OFP was founded…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (279+ words) HoloMem has successfully trialled its holographic storage drive and ribbon cartridges in a BDT LTO tape library. UK startup " "HoloMem is developing a ribbon-based cartridge and HoloDrive drive that uses multi-layer holographic storage which can store up to 200 TB in…...