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Only 4.4% Of Enterprise Storage Is Active: What The Cold Data Numbers Mean For Your Next Array
CTERA scanned 16 petabytes of live enterprise file data and found just 4.4% of capacity actively used, with 83.1% of...
HPE Alletra MP X10000 release 4 doubles cluster size to 16 nodes and adds NFS
HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 release 4 is generally available, lifting the supported limit from 8 nodes and JBOFs to...
Kioxia's XL1 puts NAND behind CXL: cheaper memory capacity while DRAM stays tight
Kioxia showed an E3.S CXL 2.0 memory expansion device built on XL-FLASH rather than DRAM at FMS 2026, demonstrating 755...
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Goes to Six Nodes: Scale-Out Block and File in One Array
HPE has made release 10.6.0 for the Alletra Storage MP B10000 generally available, taking the array from four controller nodes...
Tape capacity shipments up 57% in Q1: why AI archives are reviving the cold tier
The LTO Program's latest media report puts total shipped tape capacity in Q1 2026 up 57 percent year on year,...
MLPerf Storage v3.0: checkpointing becomes the benchmark, and the leaderboard turns over
MLCommons has published MLPerf Storage v3.0, adding checkpointing and inference workloads. The results are a useful reminder that AI storage...
Specifying NVMe storage when NAND supply is tight: a tiering guide
When drives are allocated to hyperscalers first, the way you tier storage decides whether a build ships on time. A...
Enterprise SSD revenue doubled in Q2: what the NAND squeeze means for your storage budget
TrendForce puts combined Q2 2026 revenue for the top five enterprise SSD brands at $37.59bn, up 103.6% quarter-on-quarter on higher...
