Hard Disk Drive (HDD) News
- September 2023: Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation announced the release of its MG10F Series 22TB HDD, a conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD that leverages Toshiba's 10-disk helium-sealed design. The MG10F 22TB delivers 10% more capacity than Toshiba's prior generation 20TB model. Designed and engineered to meet the growing data storage needs of its largest customers, the MG10F 22TB HDDs are compatible with a wide range of applications and workloads for both cloud-scale and traditional data-center use cases.
- January 2023: Seagate announced the launch of the industry's first 30+ TB hard drive that uses its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology while reaffirming its commitment to release HDDs with capacities of 50 TB and higher in a few years.
Related Information Technology Industry News
- July 2024 - Licenseware has entered into a strategic partnership with HAT Distribution, a leading technology distributor from Australia. As a result of this collaboration, HAT Distribution is expected to serve as the official distributor for Licenseware's cutting-edge software asset management (SAM) solutions across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). The partnership aims to enhance business software asset management, delivering innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions.
- June 2024 - Essener Systemhaus (ESH) has awarded a tendered project to USU for providing and implementing a software asset management (SAM) tool. The USU SAM solution is anticipated to function as subscription-based software hosted in ESH's data center in Essen.
- June 2024: Arkansas State University's Doha location received accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. This accreditation allows students to pursue select degree programs offered by A-State at this off-campus site. A-State partnered with Qatar's Global Studies Institute (GSI), building on approvals from the Arkansas State University System Board of Trustees and the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. The approved programs include a Bachelor of Science in Digital Technology and Design, a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management Systems, and a Master of Science in Education in Educational Leadership.
- February 2024: EON Reality, a provider of immersive learning technologies, launched an educational initiative in Qatar. With this initiative, the nation is set to unveil its first-ever Spatial AI Center, poised to transform the educational landscape for students and professionals alike.
- March 2023 - Arista Networks introduced the Arista WAN Routing System, which integrates three new networking offerings: enterprise-class routing platforms, carrier/cloud-neutral internet transit capabilities, and the CloudVision Pathfinder Service to simplify and enhance customer-wide area networks. Based on Arista's EOS routing capabilities, and CloudVision management, the Arista WAN Routing System bears the architecture, features, and platforms to modernize federated and software-defined wide area networks.
- March 2023 - Cisco Systems Inc. has announced its expanding its data centre footprint in India (Chennai) by Leveraging industry-leading network performance, the new and upgraded facilities will bring agile, highly resilient, high-capacity access closer to users, including large and small Indian enterprises from across industries
- August 2024 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a prominent player in the cybersecurity arena, has inked a definitive agreement to acquire Cyberint Technologies Ltd., a trailblazer in External Risk Management solutions. This strategic move is set to bolster Check Point’s Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities and broaden its managed threat intelligence services. The sophisticated tools and features from Cyberint will be seamlessly woven into the Check Point Infinity Platform, enhancing collaborative threat prevention. Furthermore, these capabilities will be offered as a managed service via Check Point Infinity Platform Services.
- January 2024 - NTT DATA, one of the global leaders in digital business and IT services, has entered into a strategic global partnership with CYFIRMA, a provider of external threat landscape management platforms. This alliance strengthens NTT DATA's global cybersecurity services portfolio, aligning with its newly unveiled Global Cybersecurity Strategy. By leveraging real-time intelligence, the partnership empowers governments and businesses to transition their cybersecurity strategies from a reactive stance to a predictive one.
- August 2024 - Citrix announced that integrating Amazon WorkSpaces Core with Citrix DaaS presents a cost-effective solution. The control plane plays a pivotal role in managing the compute layer of AWS workloads, ensuring optimized HDX apps are accessible from anywhere. Together, Amazon WorkSpaces Core and Citrix boost cost efficiency, simplify cloud management, and elevate user experiences.
- July 2024 - Microsoft has rolled out a public preview of its revamped optimization architecture for Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop. Simultaneously, Windows 365 has been made accessible to all users. This redesign seeks to align the features of Teams for VDI more closely with those of the native Teams, focusing on enhanced speed, automatic updates, and streamlined support.
- July 2024 - Ensono announced the expansion of its Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Specialization. This milestone underscores Ensono's dedication to premier cloud solutions and its expertise in managing and enhancing virtual desktop environments on Microsoft Azure.
- June 2023: Cigniti Technologies and Ltd Broadcom to Host 'DevOps and Continuous Delivery; by leveraging Cigniti's extensive experience in quality engineering and Broadcom's robust DevOps solutions, this partnership empowers businesses to achieve seamless integration, continuous testing, and streamlined delivery pipelines, enabling them to deliver high-quality software at an accelerated pace while maintaining reliability and customer satisfaction.
- April 2023: Smartbear, one of the leading providers of software development and visibility tools, is expanding its cloud marketplace strategy with the launch of SwaggerHub, one of the industry's leading API design and documentation tools, in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes finding, testing, buying and deploying programs running on Amazon Web Services as simple as possible. Customers can buy SwaggerHub directly in AWS Marketplace or via AWS private offers, a purchasing program that allows sellers and buyers to negotiate custom prices and end-user licensing agreement (EULA) terms for software purchases in AWS Marketplace.
- October 2023 - UNICC is Partnered with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and provider of open-source security, support and services, to build and deliver the secure private cloud environment for the UN system, offering advanced security and data sovereignty for the UN’s most sensitive data and software applications.
- September 2022: New telecom operator-focused capabilities introduced with the release of Red Hat's most recent version of its venerable OpenStack platform tighten the connection between it and the company's cloud-native OpenShift platform.
- June 2022: VEXXHOST Inc. announced the launch of Atmosphere, which is a new tool that can deploy a fully integrated OpenStack environment. Furthermore, the company has made the technology open source so that it benefits all of the users of the cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service platform.
- June 2024: LoopMe, a tech firm leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to boost brand advertising outcomes, unveiled its Audience and Measurement platform (AMP). This innovative platform merges LoopMe's PurchaseLoop Audiences with its measurement tools.
- February 2024: LinkedIn introduced a solution aimed at deepening audience insights, streamlining the process of forecasting and enhancing campaign performance. Thanks to the platform's new Media Planning API, users can harness real-time data signals to gauge a campaign's anticipated reach and frequency, all before budget allocation.
- November 2023: Chayora, an infrastructure provider specializing in high-performance and hyperscale data centers, announces the launch of its next-generation high-density data center solution, Ingenuity. This launch underscores the company's commitment to innovative practices. By utilizing both air and liquid cooling techniques, Chayora’s data center infrastructure design effectively cools racks with varying power densities.
- August 2023: Chindata introduced a comprehensive range of modular products designed for hyperscale data center builders. These products include integrated power systems and prefabricated buildings. The X-Cooling Maglev system, which features magnetic levitation for oil-free compressors, stands out among their cooling solutions. This system also employs evaporative condensation, thin fanwalls, and other advanced technologies, all managed by AI.
- June 2023: Syrex, a provider of hyper-converged cloud technology solutions in South Africa, has declared a strategic collaboration with Seceon, a provider of one of the most advanced AI and ML-driven cyber threat detection and remediation platforms for enterprises as well as managed security service providers, to offer customers with the Seceon Open Threat Management Platform.
- December 2022: As part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, President Biden declared the introduction of a new Digital Transformation with Africa initiative. A crucial signature initiative of the Biden-Harris Administration, DTA would extend digital access and literacy. It was expected to strengthen the digital allowing environments across the entire continent. Working with Congress, this initiative intended to invest over USD 350 million and facilitate more than USD 450 million in financing for Africa in line with the African Union's Digital Transformation Strategy and the U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa.