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Western Digital Innovation Event—Storage Is Where AI Goes To Learn

Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and filling multiple AI data center storage tiers.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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C4Q 2025 And 2025 Hard Disk Drive Industry Update

HDD unit shipments, exabyte shipments and revenue were up significantly in C4Q 2025 and in 2025 as a whole. Continued growth is expected in 2026.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 4

2026 promises increased demand for memory, storage devices, systems and software to support the growth of AI data processing. 

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Wealth Of The 1% Reaches Decade High In The U.S.

The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in Q3 of 2025, the highest since records began in 1989.

ByKatharina Buchholz,

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Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 3

Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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ICMSP Could Drive Additional 100EB Of AI Storage

Nvidia’s inference context memory storage initiative based will drive greater demand for storage to support higher quality and more efficient AI inference experience.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Digital Storage And Memory Feeds AI At The 2026 CES

The 2026 CES featured lots of digital storage and memory technologies including SSDs, NAS products, DRAM and HBM as well as new non-volatile memory embedded products.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Nvidia CES AI Announcements Will Continue Memory And Storage Shortages

Nvidia’s Rubin AI drives higher demand for storage and memory. Expect continued shortages and higher prices in 2026. Jensen Huang named 2026 IEEE Medal of Honor winner.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 2

AI is driving demand and higher prices for DRAM and NAND into 2026.  Products using non-volatile memories to replace NOR and SRAM in embedded applications are growing.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Komprise Unstructured Data Survey Shows AI Driving Data Management

The Komprise data management survey shows that 74% have 5PB or more of stored data and 85% of participants expect to spend more on data storage in 2026 than in 2025.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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5 Data Ethics Principles Every Business Needs To Implement In 2026

More than ever, building and maintaining trust, the bedrock of every business, succeeds or fails based on how data is handled.

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Pixitmedia Survey Shows Media And Entertainment Content Archive Trends

Pixitmedia media survey shows increased demand for unified media archives that use AI for management and content enhancement and balance on-premises versus cloud storage.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 1

HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape will ship over 400EB by 2030.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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MRAM Forum Features Automotive And Other MRAM Applications

At the 2025 MRAM Forum major foundries talked about automotive applications, magnetic field sensitivity and MRAM manufacturing equipment and test equipment.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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The Currencies With No More Pennies To Their Name

In November, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it had stopped the production of pennies due to cost concerns. How many countries have made similar decisions?

ByKatharina Buchholz,

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Micron Exits Consumer Business And Focuses On AI And Data Center Sales

Micron announced that it will exit the consumer memory business by February 2026 and focus on the more lucrative enterprise and data center markets.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Atlas Data Storage Announces Eon 100 Synthetic DNA Storage

Atlas Data Storage announced its Atlas Eon 100 scalable synthetic DNA storage service.  Synthetic DNA is a technologies vying to support long term data preservation.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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Seagate Shows 6.9TB Per Disk And Discusses Ferroelectric Recording

Seagate demonstrated 6.9TB per disk, likely with multi-level recording.  The demonstration mentioned a move from magnetic to ferroelectric recording in the future.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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What Role Do Data Centers Play In Rising Energy Demand?

The global AI craze has given energy-intensive data centers yet another boost. But how big is their role in rising global electricity demand really?

ByKatharina Buchholz,

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CXL Supports Higher Performance And DDN Enables Sovereign AI At SC25

The CXL consortium announced its 4th generation interconnect with up to 128GT/s performance.  DDN announced support for sovereign AI.

ByThomas Coughlin,

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