Seagate starts 16 TB drive wave; what storage works for serverless

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network | June 11, 2019 FEATURED STORY Seagate kicks off 16 TB HDD wave Carol Sliwa, Senior News Writer New 16 TB capacity HDD shipments start with an official launch of Seagate Exos and IronWolf disk drives. Toshiba and Western Digital are also due in 2019 to launch 16 TB HDDs for hyperscale and cloud users. (SearchStorage) Advertisement NEWS   External storage: Pure Storage up, IBM down Pure Storage has cracked the IDC enterprise storage tracker for the first time, despite its recent earnings miss. While still behind Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE, Pure has closed in on IBM. (Storage Soup)   Toshiba touts composable infrastructure use for M.2 SSD New Toshiba M.2 SSD snares composable infrastructure customer, and also targets data center and high-end workstation use cases in small-form-factor, low-power 2 TB drive. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   Nasuni CEO sees shift to more data in the cloud Paul Flanagan, CEO at Nasuni, says that enterprises are thinking 'cloud first' and storing more data in the cloud. However, it still represents only a small fraction of their overall capacity. (SearchStorage)   Dell, VMware gain in HCI at Nutanix's expense Dell and Dell-controlled VMware gained HCI market share over their main rival Nutanix, according to last week's earnings reports from the three companies. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure) EXPERT ADVICE   Where does serverless storage fit in? Get to know the four storage types that are most effective for serverless computing and serverless storage environments, and where they work best. (SearchStorage)   Stretched clusters extend an HCI to multiple sites Stretched clusters let administrators implement an HCI that spans two physical locations. In this article, we dig into the stretched cluster concept to get a better sense of what it is and how it works. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   How to combat the coming data apocalypse Data management and storage are making the necessary changes to deal with the coming datasphere explosion. Learn what's happening with unstructured and cloud data, as well as storage tiering. (SearchStorage)   5 key storage class memory terms to know Discover the different types of non-volatile memory that are trying to fill the gap between traditional memory and storage, and change how data is processed and stored. (SearchStorage) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.