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Cohesity pumps out ransomware alerts 24×7 via Helios smartphone app

Cohesity has developed a smartphone app for its Helios management software, to better enable admin staff to respond to external threats in real time. Cohesity smartphone Helios alert For instance, the manager of a Cohesity infrastructure can now receive ransomware...

Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD

Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But...

Shingled hard drives have non-shingled zones for caching writes

The revelation that some WD Red NAS drives are shipped with DM-SMR (Drive-Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording) prompted us to ask more detailed...

Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are...

Nearline hard drive shipments carry on growing

Disk shipments in 2020’s first quarter show nearline drives taking up almost half of all HDD units and the majority of capacity...

YTMC stakes claim for top table with 128 layer 1.33Tb QLC 3D NAND

China’s Yangtze Memory Technology Corporation (YMTC) has begun sampling what it claims is the world's highest density and fastest bandwidth NAND flash memory. YMTC has developed the X2-6070 chip...

Why DRAM is stuck in a 10nm trap

Why is DRAM confined in a 10nm semiconductor process prison when microprocessors and the like are being built using 7nm processes, with 5nm on the horizon? If DRAM could be fabricated with...

Starboard wants its directors on Commvault’s board

Activist investor Starboard Value has named six proxy directors it wants elected to Commvault’s board and is talking to Commvault's CEO and CFO.  Starboard announced last week it had...

Pure and Kasten integrate orchestrators for containerised backup

Pure Storage has teamed up with Kasten to integrate its storage arrays with Kasten's containerised app backup. The news is detailed in a Pure Storage blog co-authored by Pure...
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What pandemic? Cohesity raises $250m at blockbuster valuation

Cohesity has completed a $250m series E round that values the data management startup at $2.5bn. Mohit Aron, CEO...

Micron: Our firmware update makes 5210 ION SSDs viable alternative to 10K HDDs

Micron has revamped the 5210 ION SSD's firmware to make it last longer. Micron said the improved endurance make...

Quantum bolsters StorNext through Atavium acquisition

Quantum quietly bought Atavium, a small storage and data workflow startup, for an undisclosed sum last month. There are...

SK hynix pumps out PCIe 4.0 SSDs

SK hynix has announced its first PCIe gen 4 SSDs. The Korean memory maker is sampling two PCIe 4.0...