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Today's Top News

Record of WW 288EB Shipped in 1Q21 on HDDs

But 8% Q/Q decline in number of units at 64 million

Also today

FalconStor: Fiscal 1Q21 Financial Results

20% revenue growth at only $3.8 million [with our comments]

HYCU Protégé for Kubernetes

Customers have application aware, as-a-service data protection for physical, virtual and container-based workloads.

OSNexus QuantaStor 5 Integrated With Supermicro NVMe Storage Bridge Bay Systems

SBB NVMe 'cluster-in-a-box' storage servers to deliver performing SAN/NAS solutions

Excelero: NVMesh on Azure Addressing Gaps in Public Cloud Storage With 25x Performance for IO-Intensive Workloads

NVMesh elastic NVMe storage software on Microsoft Azure provides AI/ML, GPU computing, HPC and analytics with more IO/s and throughput at better cost.

Flexxon X-PHY M.2 SSD Embedded With AI Data Security

Will alert user via email and lock itself to prevent any physical tampering, users may then unlock device via dynamic authentication process, and data may be automatically wiped should device fall into wrong hands.

Catalogic ECX Copy Data Management V2.12 Software

Adds copy data management and data mobility features for enterprise storage environments from HPE, IBM Storage, NetApp, and Pure Storage.

Cloud Daddy Secure Backup V3.0 With Enhancements

Hyper-V and ESXi host/VM statistics added to infrastructure dashboard, GP3 EBS volumes support, and storing all restore points in AWS S3 Archive without EBS snapshots

Top Internal and External HDDs

From Seagate, WD, Toshiba and G-Technology

12 Best Internal HDDs for Consumers in 2021

From Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi/WD

StorONE: S1:Azure Storage Solution Minimizes TCO of Azure Storage

Also reducing customer's Azure investment, making cloud more affordable

Qumulo Adds Support for Amazon Nimble Studio

To set up creative studios in hours instead of weeks

IBM Storage Networking b-type Gen7 Switches and Directors From Brocade

With additional features

History (1995): Exclusive Interview With Exabyte CEO and COB Peter Behrendt

Where's 8mm tape drive Mammoth? | by Jean Jacques Maleval

R&D: Continuous Sampling Method for Batch Data Auditing in Cloud Storage

Corrupted data blocks located with continuous sampling methods and high probability of detection

Ulrich Brandt Stops Working in Storage Industry

After last 11 years at Swissbit | by Jean Jacques Maleval

Seagate Assigned Eighteen Patents

Symbol pair encoding for data compression, storage compute appliance with user authentication and memory allocation capabilities, NAND flash reset control, storage with actuated media player, thermal management of laser diode mode hopping for HAMR, failure detection and data recovery in storage, self-healing in storage system where critical storage group is rebuilt with different RAID geometry using remaining functioning drives, controller architecture for reducing on-die capacitance, negative thermal expansion layer for HAMR media, ML error prediction in storage arrays, managing superparity storage location usage and coverage, metadata recovery mechanism for page storage, integrated laser transceiver, fast error recovery with ECC syndrome weight assist, customized parameterization of read parameters after decoding failure for solid state storage, method to fabricate nanochannel for DNA sequencing based on narrow trench patterning process, write current switching using effective size of media thermal spot produced by HAMR, allocating part of RAID stripe to repair second RAID stripe