Rubrik’s booming base offering and two side bets

Chris Mellor -
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and CFO Kiran Choudary, recently sat down with William Blair financial analysts and discussed its business…
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Sandisk and high-bandwidth flash efforts

Chris Mellor -
Analysis: Sandisk has published a blog about an interview with high bandwidth memory (HBM) pioneer Professor Joung-ho Kim from KAIST’s…

Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW

Chris Mellor -
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe…

WD Black and Blue replaced by Sandisk Optimus branding

Chris Mellor -
Sandisk, which became independent from disk drive maker Western Digital last February is replacing its inherited WD branded SSDs with…

Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs

Chris Mellor -
Phison is extending its aiDAPTIV+ SSD technology to target AI key-value cache workloads, aiming to expand effective GPU memory and…

Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs

Chris Mellor -
The Micron 3610 NVMe SSD is the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 QLC client SSD, powered by Micron G9 NAND and…

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver

David Gordon -
Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage Backup repositories have become…

Storage Ticker - 6 January 2026

Chris Mellor -
Backblaze has appointed Dan Spraggins as SVP of Engineering to scale its global storage cloud. He now oversees Backblaze's engineering…

Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs

Chris Mellor -
Nvidia has moved to address growing KV cache capacity limits by standardizing the offload of inference context to NVMe SSDs…

Infinidat founder Moshe Yanai has bankruptcy issues

Chris Mellor -
Lenovo has not yet formally completed its Infinidat acquisition. Coincidentally, and sadly, Infinidat founder Moshe Yanai is bankrupt, following insolvency…

DDN says Lustre-based EXAScaler remains central despite Infinia push

Chris Mellor -
After several senior Lustre engineers resigned from DDN to form The Lustre Collective, a consulting-style firm focused on the parallel…

Veeam CTO Niraj Tolia steps back into advisory role

Chris Mellor -
Veeam CTO Niraj Tolia has stepped back from the role and will continue with the company as a strategic advisor.…

Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress

Chris Mellor -
A Microsoft review of Project Silica’s technology, progress and prospects suggests that “it represents the most promising solution for bridging…

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

Chris Mellor -
Max Mortillaro and Arjan Timmerman set up their EMEA-focused Osmium Data Group analyst firm in March. They published a data…

Optera’s room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive 

Chris Mellor -
Optera is an optical storage archive technology startup that stores binary digits using the presence or absence of photoluminescence. It…

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

Steve Eiland, product manager storage, Lenovo -
Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600 High-Performance Computing (HPC) isn’t just about raw compute—it’s about feeding those…

The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation

VergeIO -
Why mess with APIs when you can integrate more fundamentally? Infrastructure teams adopt automation tools expecting to eliminate manual processes…

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