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Western Digital Unveils HDDs Projects and Technologies to Accelerates Storage Innovation for AI Era

[comments] Unveiling upcoming 40TB UltraSMR ePMR 3.5" HDD, HAMR HDD capacities scaling to 100TB+, High Bandwidth Drive and Dual Pivot design technologies deliver 2x bandwidth, and new power-optimized HDD uses 20% less power

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Vista Equity Partners and Intel to co-Lead New Investment Round in AI Chip Startup SambaNova

Intel remains an investor in the startup following the breakdown of acquisition talks | by Philippe Nicolas

TrueNAS Appoints Brett Davis as CEO to Accelerate Partner-Led Growth and Enterprise Scale

Twenty-year company veteran and former GTM Leader steps into CEO role to lead the next phase of scalable enterprise growth

Snowflake Makes Enterprise Data AI-Ready With Snowflake Postgres and Advanced Innovations for Open Data Interoperability

Snowflake Postgres unifies the world's most popular database with analytics and AI on a single, secure platform

Archiware Releases P5 Version 8.0 with Cloud Synchronize Support

And advancements across cloud integration, project restore, storage monitoring, security, and user interface design

Now in Stock: Industrial SD & microSD Cards from Intelligent Memory

Intelligent Memory provides stability amid industry‑wide shortages

Dell Private Cloud Expands Choice with Nutanix Support

Dell Private Cloud now supports Nutanix with external storage flexibility; Keep the simplicity you love, gain the freedom to scale independently | by Philippe Nicolas

Astera Labs Expands Global Footprint with New Israel Design Center to Support Growing Demand for AI Connectivity Solutions

New design center to focus on cutting-edge AI fabrics and emerging AI inference technologies - Industry veteran Guy Azrad to lead operations as general manager of Astera Labs Israel

AI DevWorld 2026: Leaseweb to Showcase AI-Ready Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions

A variety of solutions will be displayed

R&D: Four Articles on HAMR, MAMR and SMR Disks

High-throughput SEM imaging of nanoscale metal grains for HAMR, quantifying erasure and interference from adjacent tracks in HAMR, cubic anisotropy media for MAMR, mitigating the Write-amplification effect of large-scale semi-external graphs on SMR drives