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Storage news ticker - 13 February 2026
2+ hour, 13+ 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…...
Storage news ticker - 9 March 2026
4+ day, 3+ 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…...
Cohesity deepens Google Cloud integration
1+ week, 1+ day ago (159+ words) Cohesity is adding Google Cloud's Threat Intelligence feature to the user interface of the Cohesity Data Cloud, and using Google Private Scanning in its sandbox function to securely detonate malware. Cohesity Chief Product Officer Vasu Murthy said: "Undetected malware hidden…...
Commvault pitches Geo Shield for sovereign data protection
1+ week, 4+ day ago (386+ words) Commvault says sovereign data protection has three core elements: where data is stored, who controls access to it, and who holds the encryption keys. Its new Geo Shield offering is designed to address all three, as organizations face growing regulatory…...
Storage news ticker - 23 January
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (924+ words) Data source connector Airbyte has joined the Linux Foundation's newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member. The Agentic AI Foundation is building a collaborative ecosystem of technology leaders, enterprises, and innovators focused on best practices, reference architectures,…...
ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (273+ words) This table lists the main parameters of ExaGrid's HDD and SSD appliance range: The entry-level EX10 and EX20 models are intended for use by larger customers with smaller datacenters worldwide " edge backup appliances as it were." The four all-flash products use NVMe…...
Hammerspace appoints new sales head
3+ week, 1+ day ago (427+ words) Jeff Giannetti, Hammerspace's Chief Revenue Officer, has left the company, with Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, taking over the role. Giannetti joined Hammerspace in January last year, coming from the CRO slot at WEKA. As part of…...
Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID
3+ week, 2+ day ago (206+ words) Cohesity has increased its Identity Resilience functionality to better protect Microsoft's Active Directory and Entra ID. It is adding new Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities that function before, during, and after an identity capture attack: There are pre-built templates…...
Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority
3+ week, 3+ day ago (333+ words) In a high-performance computing (HPC) world that's historically focussed on parallel file systems for feeding data as fast as possible to a supercomputer's multiple processors what does a supplier do when AI rewrites the demand environment and unstructured data feeds…...
Storage news ticker - 16 January 2026
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (185+ words) There will be" February 2026 Deposit Ceremony at the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard. AWA says "This ceremony is a rare opportunity to access the vault inside the mountain, and this edition will be particularly notable with a special UNESCO deposit…...