Methylated DNA storage goes parallel
A new DNA-based storage approach, faster than coding data in DNA's four nucleic bases, works by setting DNA sections on or off, with the presence or absence of methyl...
Seagate revenues soar on strong high-capacity drive demand
Seagate’s disk drive slump is over with a revenue rise due to US cloud providers buying more mass-capacity drives, and more to come from enterprises.
Revenues jumped 49 percent...
YanRong leads MLPerf AI benchmarks on GPUs supported per compute node
Chinese supplier YanRong Technology says it has the leading performance in the MLPerf Storage v1.0 benchmark, ranking first in the CosmoFlow, ResNet50 and UNet3D workloads.
The firm sells its all-flash...
Irish researchers score €4M grant to work on DNA storage
An Irish university research team has been awarded €4 million ($4.34 million) to research DNA storage and computation.
The team, led by professor Damien Woods at Maynooth University’s Hamilton Institute...
Gartner’s file and object MQ drops Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum
Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum have been dropped from Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for File and Object Storage Platforms, while VAST Data has moved from challenger to leader...
Western Digital opens separate websites for HDD and flash businesses
Western Digital has advanced the previously announced split between its HDD and flash businesses by launching separate customer websites. The separation aims to improve operational focus and market agility...
Micron reveals MLPerf Storage benchmark results for SSDs
SSD supplier Micron announced MLPerf v1.0 Storage Benchmark results for its 7.68 TB 9550 NVMe SSD, saying it offers the performance required to support a large number of accelerators and AI...
WEKA report finds storage a challenge for AI projects
An S&P Global Market Intelligence report commissioned by WEKA found that storage and data management issues are a problem area for enterprises implementing AI projects.
The second annual Global Trends in...
Seagate livens up Lyve Cloud
Seagate has added cost-saving and data access features, plus new geographic regions, to its Lyve Cloud object storage service.
Lyve Cloud is an S3-compatible public cloud data storage service based...
Rubrik reports 35% revenue growth for Q2 2025
Rubrik grew quarterly revenues by 35 percent in Q2 of its fiscal 2025 to $204.9 million, and reported a $176.9 million net loss.
The Palo Alto-based biz sells a combination...
Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives
Microsoft is using robots to take dead disk drives apart and recycle the parts as part of its e-waste reduction efforts.
Currently hard disk drives at the end of their...
DNA tech could store thousands of laptops’ data in a device the size of...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and North Carolina State universities have developed DNA storage and computing technology that "could put a thousand laptops' worth of data into DNA-based storage that's...