Western Digital Plans $73 Million Investment in Thailand to Advance HAMR HDD R&D
Western Digital has secured a THB 2.3 billion (~$73.8 million) investment from Thailand’s Board of Investment to launch an on‑site R&D program focused on Heat‑Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) HDD technology. The Thai division will develop laser‑based recording components, working alongside North American and Japanese engineering teams. This effort supports Western Digital’s roadmap to ship hard drives exceeding 100 TB by the end of the decade. The initiative builds on the company’s expanding manufacturing presence in Thailand.
Databahn Highlights Accelerating Enterprise Momentum Across AI-Native Data Pipelines
Databahn, an AI‑native data pipeline platform, reported rapid enterprise traction, with Fortune 500 customers now representing over half its base. The company posted more than 400% year‑over‑year revenue growth and nearly 200% of its ARR coming from retained customers. Growth is...
Kioxia Sampling Evaluation Samples of UFS 5.0 Embedded Flash Memory Devices for Next-Gen Mobile Applications
Kioxia has begun shipping evaluation samples of UFS 5.0 embedded flash in 512 GB and 1 TB capacities, featuring a newly designed 7.5 × 13 mm package. The devices use an in‑house controller paired with 8th‑Gen BiCS FLASH and support MIPI M‑PHY 6.0 HS‑GEAR6, delivering roughly 10.8 GB/s...
M31 Validates MIPI M-PHY v5.0 IP on 4nm, Advances 3nm Development to Enable UFS 4.1 Applications
M31 Technology announced that its silicon‑proven MIPI M‑PHY v5.0 IP has been validated on a 4 nm process and is now being advanced toward 3 nm. The PHY delivers up to 23.32 Gb/s per lane in HS‑G5 mode, doubling the speed of the prior...
MWC 2026: SK Telecom and Panmnesia Sign Partnership to Innovate AI Data Center Architecture, Enhancing Cost Efficiency and Performance
South Korea’s SK Telecom and AI‑infrastructure specialist Panmnesia have signed an MOU at MWC 2026 to co‑develop a Compute Express Link (CXL)‑based AI rack that disaggregates CPUs, GPUs and memory at the rack level. The partnership targets the high cost and...
Embedded World 2026: Cervoz to Exhibit Empowering Edge AI Solutions
Cervoz Technology will exhibit at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, showcasing a portfolio of industrial storage, memory, and connectivity solutions aimed at edge AI workloads. The company’s M.2 CAN FD expansion card earned a nomination for the Embedded Award 2026...
Embedded World 2026: Teamgroup Showcases Critical Technologies and Trusted Security Solutions
Teamgroup returns to Embedded World 2026 to unveil a portfolio of industrial‑grade SSDs, memory modules, and security solutions under the "Edge to Action" and "Military" themes. The lineup features the P250Q‑M80 1‑click data‑destruction SSD, PCIe Gen5 x4 SSDs R252, R253 and R251...
Avalanche Technology To Be Deployed in Next-Gen Unmanned Rovers and Deep Space Exploration Platforms
Avalanche Technology announced its Space Grade MRAM will be integrated into Aitech’s unmanned rovers and deep‑space exploration platforms. The memory delivers radiation immunity, permanent data retention, unlimited writes and nanosecond write latency, satisfying all five Space Grade criteria. By removing bulky redundant...
Keysight Introduces Scale-Up Validation Solutions for AI Data Centers
Keysight Technologies unveiled a portfolio of five scale‑up validation solutions aimed at AI data‑center operators. The offerings cover emerging interconnect standards such as UALink 200 G, PCIe 7.0, PCIe 6.0, CXL 3 and PCIe 5.0, integrating high‑performance BERT and real‑time oscilloscopes for precise measurement. By automating...
AMD and Nutanix Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance an Open and Scalable Platform for Enterprise AI
AMD and Nutanix have signed a multi‑year strategic agreement to build an open, full‑stack AI infrastructure platform optimized for agentic AI workloads. The deal includes a $150 million equity investment by AMD in Nutanix and up to $100 million to fund joint...
Leaseweb UK Delivers GPU Acceleration to Public Cloud with Nvidia L4
Leaseweb has launched Nvidia L4 GPU instances in its UK public cloud, marking the first sovereign cloud offering of Nvidia GPU acceleration in the region. The L4 GPUs support AI inference, machine learning, video rendering, graphics, and VDI, available in...
WD Unifies Its Professional Content Creator Storage Portfolio Under G-DRIVE Brand
Western Digital announced that its SanDisk Professional storage line will be rebranded under the G‑DRIVE name, unifying its external storage portfolio for content creators. The initial G‑DRIVE lineup includes rugged portable drives up to 6 TB, desktop drives up to 26 TB,...
MWC 2026: Huawei New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage Passes Enterprise Strategy Group Technical Validation
Huawei's New‑Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All‑Flash Storage received technical validation from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). ESG's tests showed the system delivering over 876,000 IOPS with a 32 µs average latency in a high‑concurrency database workload. The architecture supports active‑active failover, tolerates...
Summary of February 2026
February 2026 was a whirlwind of AI‑focused announcements, with Meta teaming up with Nvidia to build a massive AI infrastructure and Brookfield unveiling a $100 billion AI‑infrastructure program. The month also saw Anthropic raise a record $30 billion in Series G funding, pushing its...
Meta and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Infrastructure Partnership
Meta announced a multi‑year strategic partnership with Nvidia to power its AI‑optimized data centers. The deal expands the use of Nvidia GPUs, Spectrum‑X Ethernet, and Confidential Computing across Meta’s infrastructure. Joint engineering teams will co‑design hardware and software to improve...
Everpure: A New Identity for a New Era
Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure, signaling a strategic shift from pure storage hardware to comprehensive data‑management solutions. The new Everpure Fusion platform promises a people‑centric, policy‑driven enterprise data cloud that automates dataset lifecycle and governance. This week the company...
HyperBUNKER Granted US Patent for Hardware-Enforced Offline Data Vault
HyperBUNKER received US Patent No. 19/290,836 for its offline, hardware‑enforced Data Storage Security System that uses one‑way optocouplers, PLC‑governed drive cycling, and a multi‑vault architecture. The design physically isolates backups, eliminating network connections and login interfaces. It promises full system recovery...
Security Advisory: QNAP Warns Users of a Fraudulent Website Impersonating Qfinder Pro
QNAP Systems issued a security advisory warning that a fraudulent website, qfinder-pro.com, is impersonating its official Qfinder Pro utility. The fake site mimics QNAP branding to trick users into downloading tampered software, potentially exposing personal data and networks to malware....
SoftBank Group to Acquire DigitalBridge for $4 Billion to Scale Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
SoftBank Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire DigitalBridge for an enterprise value of roughly $4 billion, paying $16 per share in cash. The deal represents a 15% premium to the recent closing price and a 50% premium to the 52‑week...
Innodisk Launches CXL Add-In Card for Scalable Edge AI Memory Expansion
Innodisk unveiled a CXL Add‑in Card (AIC) that expands memory via PCIe without using DIMM slots. The HHHL‑form factor card supports up to 256 GB using two DDR5 RDIMM sockets and delivers 32 GB/s over PCIe Gen 5 × 8. Built on CXL 2.0 Type 3, it enables...
RNGD Enters Mass Production: 4,000 High-Performance AI Accelerators Shipped by TSMC
Furiosa AI announced the mass production of its RNGD AI accelerator, with the first 4,000 units delivered by TSMC and ASUS. The chip offers 512 INT8 TFLOPS at a 180 W TDP and claims 3.5× higher compute density than Nvidia H100 systems. RNGD...
Infortrend Hybrid Flash Storage Powers AI and HPC with Speed and Scale at Lower Cost
Infortrend unveiled its EonStor GS 5024U hybrid flash storage, delivering up to 125 GB/s throughput and 2.4 million IO/s while scaling to 20 PB of capacity. The system combines NVMe SSDs for hot workloads with HDDs for cold data, cutting costs by more than 50% compared...
NetActuate Launches Global Edge Storage
NetActuate announced Global Edge Storage, a suite of high‑performance storage options that can be attached to compute resources at the network edge. The service offers block, S3‑compatible object, and custom storage, all provisioned through the same portal or API used...
Icy Dock MB411V4PO-2B Enclosure to Convert Ultra-Slim ODD Bay Into High-Speed NVMe Drive Bay
Icy Dock introduced the MB411V4PO‑2B enclosure, turning a 9.5 mm ultra‑slim optical‑drive bay into a removable U.2/U.3 NVMe SSD slot. The adapter uses an OCuLink 4i (SFF‑8612) interface with PCIe Gen4 x4, delivering up to 64 Gb/s—over ten times faster than traditional SATA ODD connections. Its...
Media Duplication Systems Introduces XpressNVMe Compliance Suite for End-of-Life SSD Management
Media Duplication Systems (MDS) unveiled the XpressNVMe Compliance Suite, an integrated hardware platform that combines SSD sanitization with physical shredding to manage end‑of‑life solid‑state drives. The solution follows NIST SP 800‑88 guidelines, logs serial numbers, erasure methods and timestamps, and supports...
QBO Cloud and MinIO Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Object Storage for Modern AI and Analytics Workloads
QBO Cloud and MinIO announced a joint solution that merges QBO’s bare‑metal cloud platform with MinIO’s AIStor, an exascale, S3‑compatible object storage system. The partnership delivers a unified, high‑performance data layer designed for modern AI and analytics workloads, emphasizing scalability,...
Akash Systems Delivers World’s First Diamond Cooled Nvidia GPU Servers to NxtGen AI Pvt Ltd
Akash Systems has shipped the world’s first diamond‑cooled Nvidia H200 GPU servers to NxtGen AI Pvt Ltd, India’s leading sovereign cloud provider. The proprietary Diamond Cooling layer sits atop existing air and liquid cooling, eliminating thermal throttling and delivering roughly...
Astera Labs: Fiscal 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results
Astera Labs reported record FY2025 revenue of $852.5 million, a 115% year‑over‑year increase, and a Q4 revenue of $270.6 million, up 17% sequentially. GAAP operating margin reached 20.3% for the year, while non‑GAAP margin was 39.2%, reflecting strong profitability. The company began...
Nimbus Data Unveils FlashMax Data Platform for Mission-Critical Enterprises and Cloud Providers
Nimbus Data introduced FlashMax, a next‑generation multiprotocol all‑flash platform that consolidates block, file and object storage into a single namespace. The system adds DirectLink PCIe expansion, hardware‑accelerated deduplication and compression, and rack‑level resiliency, supporting up to 20 PB raw (100 PB effective)...
IM Launches New-Gen of eMMC for Industrial Applications
Intelligent Memory Ltd. (IM) has launched a new low‑density eMMC product line, offering 8 GB and 16 GB capacities in a 153‑ball BGA package for industrial applications. The devices target environments requiring stability, longevity and right‑sized storage, such as factory automation, medical...
SoftBank Corp. Subsidiary SAIMEMORY and Intel Collaborate to Commercialize Next-Generation Memory Technology
SoftBank’s wholly owned subsidiary SAIMEMORY has signed a joint development agreement with Intel to bring Z‑Angle Memory (ZAM) to market. The partnership leverages Intel’s Next‑Gen DRAM Bonding (NGDB) research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Memory Technology program. Prototypes...
Xinnor Named Startup of the Year at StorageNewsletter Awards 2026
StorageNewsletter announced Xinnor as Startup of the Year at its inaugural 2026 awards, selected from more than 100 entries across 11 categories. The jury highlighted Xinnor’s pure‑software approach to large‑scale data protection, a segment gaining urgency as AI and high‑performance...
DigitalOcean Elevates Its Agentic Inference Cloud with GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs
DigitalOcean has launched GPU Droplets powered by AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs, enhancing its agentic inference cloud for production AI workloads. The MI350X, built on CDNA‑4, delivers lower latency, higher token‑generation throughput and doubles request throughput while cutting inference costs by 50%...
Speedata Partners with Nebul to Bring High-Performance Big Data and AI Analytics to European Sovereign Cloud
Speedata Ltd. announced a partnership with Nebul to integrate its purpose‑built Analytics Processing Unit (APU) into Nebul’s European sovereign cloud. The APU claims up to 100× performance gains over CPUs and GPUs for Apache Spark workloads, cutting server counts and...
Credo Technology’s Toucan PCIe Retimer Achieves PCI‑SIG Compliance
Credo Technology announced that its 7 nm Toucan PCIe retimer has achieved PCI‑SIG compliance at 32.0 GT/s, meeting PCIe 5.0 speed specifications while being ready for PCIe 6.0 and future 7.0 roadmaps. The compliance validation confirms interoperability, signal integrity, and low‑power operation across standard...
Qualstar Certifies ATTO XstreamCORE 8100T for Integration with Its Q-Series Tape Libraries
Qualstar and ATTO announced certification of ATTO’s XstreamCORE 8100T Intelligent Bridge with the full Q‑Series tape‑library portfolio, from Q8 to Q1000+. The bridge converts up to four SAS‑connected LTO‑8/9/10 drives into dual 10 Gb Ethernet iSCSI links, letting libraries attach to standard...
Summary of Week 8 – February 16-20, 2026
Week 8 highlighted several strategic moves in the data‑storage and AI hardware market. IBM launched an autonomous storage portfolio—FlashSystem 5600, 7600, 9600—powered by agentic AI, while AMD and TCS announced a 200 MW Helios rack‑scale AI deployment in India. Financially, AMD posted a 34 % YoY...
Astera Labs Acquired Pliops
Astera Labs announced the acquisition of Pliops, paving the way for its first research and development center in Israel. The move, confirmed by former Pliops CRO Marius Tudor, expands Astera’s global footprint and aligns with its strategy to accelerate AI‑connectivity...
Crusoe Launches Command Center: A Unified Operations Platform for High-Performance AI Workloads
Crusoe unveiled Command Center, a unified operations platform that consolidates GPU telemetry, logging, and orchestration for high‑performance AI workloads. The solution offers out‑of‑the‑box metrics, custom metric ingestion, and topology‑aware views, while integrating tightly with Crusoe Managed Kubernetes, Slurm, and AutoClusters....
Micrologic Partners with Cohesity to Become the Leading Sovereign Cloud Data Protection Solution in Canada
Micrologic, a Canadian sovereign‑cloud provider, has teamed with AI‑driven data‑security firm Cohesity to launch a fully Canadian‑jurisdictional data‑protection platform. The joint solution combines Micrologic’s Canada‑only cloud infrastructure with Cohesity’s backup, disaster‑recovery and isolated recovery environment technology. It promises recovery speeds...
Ax3.ai Appoints Marius Tudor as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Global Growth
Ax3.ai appointed Marius Tudor as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global go‑to‑market strategy. Tudor brings more than 25 years of technical sales experience in infrastructure and hardware. He will expand direct sales channels, strengthen the partner ecosystem, and target...
Lam Research Deepens Investment in Boise, Idaho, to Support Projected Growth in U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing
Lam Research inaugurated a new 9,200‑sq‑ft office in Boise, Idaho, staffed initially by about 150 employees focused on research, development and high‑volume manufacturing for Micron’s memory technology. The facility underscores Lam’s multi‑year strategy to expand U.S. operations and accelerate chip...
IBM Introduces Autonomous Storage with New FlashSystem Portfolio Powered by Agentic AI
IBM unveiled three new FlashSystem models—5600, 7600 and 9600—featuring the FlashSystem.ai suite and a 5th‑Gen FlashCore module. The AI‑driven services claim up to 90% reduction in manual storage management and up to 57% cost savings on the flagship 9600. Hardware‑accelerated...
Cisco Unveiled Silicon One G300, Advanced Systems and Optics to Power and Scale AI Data Centers for Agentic Era
Cisco unveiled its Silicon One G300 switch silicon, delivering 102.4 Tb/s of bandwidth to power gigawatt‑scale AI clusters. The G300 powers new N9000 and 8000 systems that use 100% liquid cooling and 1.6 Tb/s optics, boosting energy efficiency by up to 70% and...
Avalanche Technology Introduces Next-Gen VNX+ Storage Module for Space and Military Applications
Avalanche Technology unveiled its VNX+ storage module, combining Space Grade MRAM with Lattice’s CertusPro‑NX FPGA to deliver true radiation immunity without sacrificing density, speed, or endurance. The solution is engineered for military and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) applications and satisfies...
DesignCon 2026: Keysight to Showcase Advanced AI Data Center and High-Speed Interconnect Validation
Keysight Technologies will present end‑to‑end AI data‑center and high‑speed interconnect validation solutions at DesignCon 2026 in Santa Clara. The showcase includes a 3D chiplet design workflow, signal‑integrity testing up to 3.2 Tbps, DDR5 and GDDR7 memory validation, and PCIe 7.0 PAM4 performance verification....
Intel: Fiscal 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results
Intel reported FY 2025 revenue of $52.9 billion, essentially flat year‑over‑year, while Q4 revenue slipped 4% to $13.7 billion. GAAP earnings per share were a loss of $0.12 in the quarter, but non‑GAAP EPS turned positive at $0.15, and full‑year GAAP EPS remained...
Trane Technologies to Acquire LiquidStack to Accelerate End‑to‑End Data Center Thermal Management Solutions
Trane Technologies announced a definitive agreement to acquire LiquidStack, a specialist in liquid‑cooling solutions for data centers, with the deal slated to close in early 2026. The acquisition builds on Trane’s 2023 minority stake and adds direct‑to‑chip and immersion cooling...
Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years of Data Show Growing, Healthier Drive Fleet
Backblaze released its 2025 Year‑End Drive Stats, covering 344,196 drives across 30 models. The annualized failure rate dropped to 1.36%, down from 1.55% in 2024, with a quarterly AFR of 1.13% in Q4. High‑capacity drives now dominate the fleet, with...
Samsung Begin Mass Production of Up to 36GB HBM4 Memory With Performance for AI Computing
Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of its next‑generation HBM4 memory, shipping 24‑36 GB stacks that deliver 11.7 Gb/s per pin and up to 3.3 TB/s bandwidth per stack. The new DRAM uses Samsung’s 6th‑gen 10 nm‑class 1c process and 12‑layer stacking, offering a...