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Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/w...
Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate
Western Digital is making more than double the profits from its shipped disk drive exabytes than Seagate. An analyst asked a question during Western Digital’s latest earnings call asking about the rev...
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January 31, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/w...
Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/s...
Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold
Sandisk resoundingly beat its high-end $2.65 billion guidance with revenues of $3.03 billion in its second fiscal 2026 quarter, and GAAP profits up an impressive 672 percent Y/Y to $804 million. Reven...
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January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Sandisk turns pricey NAND chips into gold - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/s...
Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/w...
Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance
Disk drive maker Western Digital beat the $3 billion high end of its guidance with a highly-profitable second fiscal 2026 quarter as nearline data center drive demand stayed strong and is set to conti...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Western Digital triples profit as revenues ratchet up above guidance - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/30/w...
SK Hynix posts record year as HBM boom supercharges profits - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
SK Hynix posts record year as HBM boom supercharges profits
SK hynix revenues for the final 2025 quarter rose 63.3 percent year-on-year to ₩32.83 trillion with net profit of ₩15.25 trillion.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:33 PM
SK Hynix posts record year as HBM boom supercharges profits - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
High-bandwidth memory v4 supply takes shape - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/h...
High-bandwidth memory v4 supply takes shape
Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are gearing up to supply v4 high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to Nvidia and other AI accelerator suppliers
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January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
High-bandwidth memory v4 supply takes shape - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/h...
Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges
Seagate surpassed the high end of the prior quarter’s $2.8 billion revenue outlook with $2.83 billion for its second fiscal 2026 quarter.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle
SK hynix is looking to restructure Solidigm and invest in AI-related US businesses to strengthen the role of its memory products.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/28/s...
Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/z...
Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud
US datacenter and cloud services provider Alerify is using Zadara cloud offerings to provide Edge AI private cloud services.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/z...
Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/c...
Commvault sets revenue record - and restructures
Data protection and cyber-resilience business Commvault went well past the $300 million high-end guidance for its third fiscal 2026 quarter, with a thumping 19 percent revenue jump to $314 million. Th...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/c...
Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/r...
Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth
Redis has passed $300 million in annual recurring revenue for its eponymous real-time, in-memory database.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/r...
VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe SSD capacity - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/v...
VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe capacity
VAST Data’s Amplify is a formal program to determine whether data reduction can recover stranded capacity in a customer’s NVMe SSDs.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:00 PM
VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe SSD capacity - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/v...
Databricks said to top up war chest with $1.8B debt financing - a billion here, a billion there -pretty soon we'll be talking real money - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/26/d...
Databricks said to top up war chest with $1.8B debt financing
Databricks has raised yet more cash with a $1.8 billion debt financing round, taking its total debt access to more than $7 billion.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Databricks said to top up war chest with $1.8B debt financing - a billion here, a billion there -pretty soon we'll be talking real money - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/26/d...
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors - Hammerspace, NetApp amd WEKA - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/26/m...
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors
WEKA and Hammerspace have issued guides on how to respond to the memory and SSD supply shortages and price hikes.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors - Hammerspace, NetApp amd WEKA - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/26/m...
Storage news ticker - 23 January - Airbyte, Arcitecta, Assured DP, DapuStor, HDD prices, HighPoint, Lightbits, Phison, Quantum, SK hynix, Softbank, Virtuozzo - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/s...
Storage news ticker - 23 January
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 technol...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Storage news ticker - 23 January - Airbyte, Arcitecta, Assured DP, DapuStor, HDD prices, HighPoint, Lightbits, Phison, Quantum, SK hynix, Softbank, Virtuozzo - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/s...
OpenDrives appoints new CEO amid shift to video software - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/o...
OpenDrives appoints new CEO amid shift to video software
OpenDrives has appointed Trevor Morgan as its new CEO as the company continues its shift to a software-led video data and workflow platform.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
OpenDrives appoints new CEO amid shift to video software - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/o...
ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/e...
ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances
ExaGrid has launched four all-flash backup appliances with faster ingest speeds and larger capacities.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/23/e...
Coldago's new report has four leading unstructured data managers - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/22/c...
Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers
Research house Coldago has evaluated 11 unstructured data management suppliers and identified four market leaders: Komprise, Arcitecta, Hammerspace and Data Dynamics as leaders, in that order, in its ...
blocksandfiles.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Coldago's new report has four leading unstructured data managers - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/22/c...
Hammerspace appoints new sales head - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/22/h...
Hammerspace appoints new sales head
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 Janua...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hammerspace appoints new sales head - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/22/h...
Komprise’s response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/21/k...
Komprise’s response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns
Data manager Komprise has its own take on how organizations should respond to substantial enterprise SSD prices rises and lengthened delivery times; manange data better so as to use less SSD capacity....
blocksandfiles.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Komprise’s response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/21/k...
Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/q...
Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority
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 ...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/q...
Dell plans single global IT stack to replace decades of internal sprawl - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/o...
Dell plans single global IT stack to replace decades of internal sprawl
Dell is replacing internal IT systems with a single environment covering the Consumer Solutions Group and Infrastructure Solutions Group.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Dell plans single global IT stack to replace decades of internal sprawl - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/o...
VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/v...
VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives
HPC and AI storage supplier VDURA says the price gap between SSDs and hard disk drives is widening as flash prices rise faster than HDD.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/v...
Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/f...
Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins
Samsung and SK hynix are reducing their flash wafer output this year to increase profitability, according to analyst firm Omdia.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/20/f...
A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/a...
A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead
The high-bandwidth flash market could be bigger than high-bandwidth memory in 12 years time according to the leading HBF evangelist, Professor Kim Jung-ho of the School of Electrical Engineering at th...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:28 AM
A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/a...
Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/m...
Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab
Micron is buying a 300,000 sq ft cleanrooom fab site in Taiwan from Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation for $1.8 billion.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab - blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/m...