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Storage news ticker - 22 October Data protector Acronis has a new CEO Prakash Panjwani, joining this month. A prior CEO Ezequiel Steiner left a year ago. He was replaced by Jan-Jaap Jager, coming from being President and CEO at Virtuozzo. Panjwani previously served as CEO of WatchGuard Technologies (for about a decade, transforming it from a firewall specialist into a broader AI-powered cybersecurity platform) and of SafeNet. Jager remains an Acronis shareholder. … ConnectWise shut down Cloud Backup after attackers used a stolen vendor credential to access 173 Microsoft 365 customer tenants on October 15. They also pulled SaaS Security and Cloud Management as a precaution. That means MSPs relying on those tools could not back up data, reach archives, or restore files. As of Oct 22, :”As previously reported, we identified unauthorized access to application credentials associated with Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick. Our teams and independent specialists continue advancing phased restoration, completing the security validation required at each step. We will share service-specific availability and reconnection instructions as they are confirmed. Previously published findings and partner guidance remain current. We recognize the continued disruption to your business and customers and remain focused on restoring service safely. Keep affected connections disabled until formal instructions apply to your service.” “Existing backup archives remain encrypted, isolated and preserved, with no indication of compromise.” Expect to wait several more days until normal service is restored. … Couchbase, calling itself the Operational Data Platform for AI, today announced an update of its AI Data Plane with new capabilities including native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, in addition to vector search within Couchbase Operational Insights. Together, these innovations give enterprise teams a single governed platform to replace fragmented data services that slow agent deployments, reducing both infrastructure burden and the cost of running production AI at scale. Couchbase unifies key-value, SQL, full-text search, vector search, and real-time columnar analytics on a single JSON data set, so agents get operational and historical context in one call instead of a round trip through separate systems. … DDN has a new CMO, Adam Berlew, and says he brings experience across cloud, AI, hardware, software and services, with a career spanning marketing, go-to-market and product leadership roles at companies including Equinix (CMO), Atlassian, Google Cloud, Broadcom and Dell. He will lead DDNs global marketing organisation as it looks to strengthen its brand, accelerate customer acquisition and connect more organisations with infrastructure designed to support AI workloads. Prior CMO Jyothi Swaroop left in April to be SMO at ChargePoint. … Collaboration supplier Egnyte announced announced Context Studio and AI Control Center; two new platform capabilities designed to help organizations improve how AI uses business context while strengthening control over agent access. Context Studio enables teams to visualize, manage, and optimize the business context behind their AI agents' improving accuracy and reducing AI costs. AI Control Center gives IT administrators a single dashboard to discover every AI agent connected to company content, see what sensitive data each one can reach, and restrict or re-scope that access. To learn more, visit the Context Studio and AI Control Center webpages or watch the State of Egnyte: Fall 2026 virtual event for a detailed walkthrough of Context Studio, AI Control Center, and Egnyte’s AI journey. … JEDEC has established a new task group focused on advancing industry standards for LPDDR persistent memory, with MRAM developer Everspin chairing the effort. The group will focus on simplifying integration and enabling broader adoption of persistent memory across compatible system architectures. Everspin's Steffen Hellmold, VP of corporate strategy, is chairing the task group and brings more than 30 years of experience participating in JEDEC standards activities. The work is intended to enable controller support for both DRAM and persistent memory, as well as approaches that enable LPDDR DRAM and persistent memory from multiple vendors to operate within compatible system architectures. … Austrian banking IT Services provider Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH & Co KG, has implemented a cyber resiliency architecture for its mainframe environment in partnership with Hitachi Vantara. Powered by Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and based on immutable snapshots, the solution reduces recovery time in the worst-case scenario — the total loss of all storage systems across both data center sites — from an estimated seven days to between one and two hours. It also limits potential data loss to two hours. Raiffeisen’s mainframe environment processes approximately one billion transactions per month for more than 1.25 million end customers. Raiffeisen Informatik operates the IT infrastructure for central institutions of the Raiffeisen Banking Group, including Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien, Raiffeisenlandesbank Burgenland, Raiffeisen Landesbank Vorarlberg, and the UNIQA insurance group. Before the project, Raiffeisen Informatik operated two production storage systems across two data center sites, supported by daily FlashCopies and batch backups written to a virtual tape library. The architecture met the four-hour recovery time objectives for standard failure scenarios. Now the firm can cope with an attacker destroying all storage systems across both data centers simultaneously. … IBM announced Q4 fy2026 results with $17.1 billion revenues, up 5% Y/Y, and $2.2 billion GAAP net income. - Software BU revenue up 8 percent to $7.8 billion. - Consulting BU revenue flat at $5.3 billion. - Infrastructure BU revenue of $3.7 billion, up 4 percent, It said storage hardware, in the distributed infrastructure segment - where revenues grew 32%, delivered record revenue growth for its Infrastructure BU, gaining market share across the portfolio. CEO Arvind Krishna said: “AI continues to increase demand for storage and we are gaining share through differentiated offerings across Flash, Fusion, tape, and IBM Z storage, including AI-enabled capabilities that help clients scale and manage data for AI.” CFO Jim Kavanaugh said: “Strength across Storage and Power reflects the growing importance of differentiated infrastructure as clients modernize their environments, address data growth, and support AI at scale. With a sizable backlog in Distributed Infrastructure exiting the quarter, we are well positioned for continued momentum in the fourth quarter. “ In the software BU Kavanaugh said: “Data grew 20%, driven by another strong performance from Confluent, with bookings growth of about 20%.” … A labor union in Taiwan carried out the first-ever strike there, with a small number of workers at Micron’s Taoyuan plant, wanting a profit-sharing scheme for employees. This follows a similar union-employer dispute in South Korea where Samsung agreed to a profits sharing deal with employees. Micron said it wanted to maintain a communications dialog with its employees. … mountOS is a cross-platform, forkable, time-traveling distributed filesystem over S3-compatible object storage. It provides native, POSIX-compliant filesystem access across macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, allowing applications to work directly with object-backed storage without requiring a complete local copy. Unlike traditional fixed-capacity volumes, mountOS uses object storage as its underlying storage layer, with local SSD caching and replicated write handling for low-latency access. It also supports point-in-time filesystem views and writable forks. The system is designed for deployment on infrastructure operated by cloud providers, storage vendors, and enterprises. More information here. … Graph database supplier Neo4j announced its Context Engine, designed to give AI agents a shared understanding of business data and relationships across systems, enabling more accurate and trustworthy enterprise AI. It creates a shared knowledge layer that helps AI agents understand relationships between data and retain knowledge from previous interactions. Capabilities include: - Business Ontology – creates a structured map of an organisation's data, processes and relationships, helping AI agents understand how different parts of a business connect - Context Build and Runtime – connects existing business data sources to the shared knowledge layer, allowing AI agents to access relevant context when carrying out tasks - Context Studio – provides a central platform to build, manage and govern the knowledge and workflows used by AI agents - Context Memory – gives AI agents persistent memory of previous interactions and decisions, allowing them to reuse knowledge and improve their reasoning over time Neo4j Context Engine is now available in private preview. Learn more here. … Vector database and search company Pinecone added on-demand mode to Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). It follows BYOC becoming generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure three weeks ago. BYOC runs Pinecone inside a company’s own cloud account, so the data stays with the company while Pinecone operates the database. Teams in legal, healthcare and financial services use it for exactly that reason. … Data management supplier Precisely announced the Precisely Automate MCP Server and native OData support in Precisely Automate. This release enables AI assistants and applications to interact with SAP automation workflows through a standards-based interface, while supporting SAP Clean Core requirements. OData is SAP's preferred API standard for connecting applications and exchanging data, allowing AI applications and agents to interact with SAP through modern integrations. The Precisely Automate MCP Server, built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposes existing Automate Studio scripts and Evolve workflows as AI-callable tools — giving any MCP-compatible AI platform a standards-based connection to SAP automation. One configuration works across Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI platforms that adopt the protocol, without rebuilding integrations as the AI landscape evolves. Learn more here. … Reuters reports Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to produce NAND flash chips with 200+ layers, aiming to fend off fast-growing Chinese rival YMTC. - Samsung (Xi’an plant): This facility accounts for roughly 40% of Samsung’s global NAND output and currently produces chips around the ~200-layer range. Under an internal project called “Monami,” Samsung is converting it to produce 286-layer V9 NAND. Targets cited by sources: ~5,000 wafers/month by December 2026, ramping toward 40,000 wafers/month by December 2027. Samsung has said the upgrades are to meet demand (including from U.S. customers), comply with U.S. rules, and do not expand overall capacity or add new facilities. - SK Hynix (Dalian plant): Acquired via the 2021 purchase of Intel’s NAND business (now Solidigm). It currently makes ~192-layer chips. Plans are to move to 240 layers or more. Sources indicate it has U.S. approval for up to 240 layers there and may seek further approval for R&D on 300+ layer technology (which could support future U.S. production). This site is Solidigm’s only NAND manufacturing base and is relevant to its planned U.S. IPO. … Sandisk announced the Guardian Series portfolio of high-endurance storage designed for use with 24x7 compatible home security cameras, dash cams and built-in monitoring systems. They enable continuous recording with the durability to withstand harsh environmental conditions, and the continuous overwriting cameras require. The new portfolio includes: - SANDISK Dash Cam Card – Engineered to work with a wide variety of dash cams, the SANDISK Dash Cam Card is purpose-built for continuous, high-endurance recording in demanding driving conditions. The card supports high-res recording from Full HD up to 4K UHD and is engineered to withstand heat and humidity1 on even the longest drives. It is available in capacities ranging from 32 GB to 512 GB, with the 512 GB2 cards tested to endure up to 40,000 hours of recorded drives. - SANDISK Security Cam Card – Built to work with a wide variety of security cameras, the SANDISK Security Cam Card is engineered to operate continuously alongside – or in lieu of – cloud storage to help keep your footage even when the Wi-Fi drops. Available from 32 GB to 512 GB, it is temperature, water, and dust proof for year-round outdoor camera systems and supports high-res recording from Full HD up to 4K UHD1 for crystal clear video. The SANDISK Guardian Series memory cards are available now from select retailers starting at $28.99 U.S. MSRP for 32GB. … Symply announced GA of SymplyATOM2, the next generation of its free LTO tape drive management and diagnostic software. Built for macOS and Windows, SymplyATOM2 provides an accessible set of tools for managing, maintaining and troubleshooting Symply LTO tape products. Its graphical interface is designed to help people who are new to LTO, whilst also providing the detailed diagnostics and controls required by experienced tape users and support professionals. SymplyATOM2 can be downloaded from the Symply Support Portal. … Data warehouser Teradata announced a portfolio of deployment and platform capabilities designed to give governments and enterprises greater control over the data, AI, and technology that power their most critical operations. This includes expanded capabilities for Teradata Factory with AI Studio and the availability of Teradata Sovereign Cloud on Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped environment. Teradata Factory with AI Studio capabilities include: - Tera, the agentic coworker for enterprise data work, including Tera Harness and Tera Context Engine - AgentStack, the complete AI agent development capabilities to build, manage, observe and operate agents through natural language, pro-code, low-code, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces - Model services, which provide machine learning operations and AI model management with pre-integrated model and bring-your-own-model support - Data pipelines for ingesting multimodal unstructured data, vector embeddings, vector storage and hybrid search for RAG - Analytics, native notebooks backed by in-database analytics and Teradata's Elastic Python Compute, built on Ray and Arrow, bring AI to where data lives Teradata Sovereign Cloud on Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped brings Teradata’s high-performance enterprise-scale analytics into fully isolated environments. The expanded Teradata sovereign capabilities for Teradata Factory with AI Studio will be available in Q1 2027. Teradata Sovereign Cloud on Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped is available in Private Preview. … Mirantis is a B2B open-source cloud computing software and services company that provides platforms for managing Kubernetes, containers, OpenStack, and AI infrastructure across hybrid, multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. It announced a joint integration with VAST Data to simplify how neoclouds and AI infrastructure deploy and operate secure, multi-tenant AI infrastructure at scale. By bringing together the Mirantis k0rdent AI infrastructure orchestration and the VAST AI Operating System, the companies are creating a repeatable operational model spanning GPU compute and the data services that power AI workloads. Previously, deploying compute and storage for an AI cloud tenant required operators to coordinate separate infrastructure systems, bare-metal servers, Kubernetes clusters, storage, and tenant access. Identifying network and storage details, applying specialized domain expertise and manually maintaining isolation between tenants was labor-intensive and introduced multiple opportunities for configuration errors. With the Mirantis and VAST integration, k0rdent AI orchestrates the infrastructure so storage is automatically created, configured, scaled and retired alongside tenant compute resources. … Veeam announce GA of Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365, the first generally available offering in the Veeam Intelligent ResOps (iResOps) portfolio and an add-on for Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365. Customers connect Veeam iResOps for Microsoft 365 to Veeam Data Cloud in a few clicks, with no data migration and no re-architecture required. They get new visibility across their Microsoft 365 estate, identifying known and unknown AI agents, AI-driven file changes, discovering Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial (ROT) data, and locating any sensitive and regulated data to validate protection. With clear visibility across their Microsoft 365 data and AI estate, organizations can safely accelerate their use of AI, reduce storage costs, improve compliance, and recover data with precision. Veeam is also announcing Private Previews of Veeam iResOps for Veeam Data Platform and Okta, respectively. Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 is generally available today as an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, in Foundation and Advanced editions, and is also available through Veeam Cloud & Service Providers (VCSPs). Veeam iResOps for Veeam Data Platform and Veeam iResOps for Okta are available now in Private Preview to qualified customers. Private Previews for GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Google IAM begin in Q4 2026. … Virtuozzo Infrastructure System (V/IS) 8.0 is the latest major release of Virtuozzo’s infrastructure platform (formerly called Virtuozzo Infrastructure). It is SW-defined infrastructure for service providers, SaaS companies, channel partners, and enterprises to deliver virtualization, storage, networking, compute, and AI/GPU workloads. V8.0 enables smaller deployments for customers who need only one or two servers, using local storage without a shared storage network. Plus: - Expand into AI with updated Nvidia support. Dedicate GPUs to workloads or share them across virtual machines, with passthrough and vGPU on the same host. - Simplify VMware migration. The built-in migration tool is now generally available, supporting vSphere 8 without VMware’s VDDK. The release also brings a RHEL 10 operating system support, simpler setup with new onboarding wizard, improved object storage performance, and greater control over API access. Virtuozzo positions V/IS 8.0 as a more flexible and often lower-cost alternative to VMware. … ReRAM developer Weebit Nano has published a technical paper on how ECC is implemented and used in ReRAM-based systems. It goes into the specific failure mechanisms it sees in ReRAM, how they differ from flash, and what this means for selecting the right ECC approach in real products. Access the paper here. … xMEMS Labs announced the start of mass production of its solid-state XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 µCooling chips.
Storage news ticker - 22 October Data protector Acronis has a new CEO Prakash Panjwani, joining this month. A prior CEO Ezequiel Steiner left a year ago. He was replaced by Jan-Jaap Jager, coming from being President and CEO at Virtuozzo. Panjwani previously served as CEO of WatchGuard Technologies (for about a decade, transforming it from a firewall specialist into a broader AI-powered cybersecurity platform) and of SafeNet. Jager remains an Acronis shareholder. … ConnectWise shut down Cloud Backup after attackers used a stolen vendor credential to access 173 Microsoft 365 customer tenants on October 15. They also pulled SaaS Security and Cloud Management as a precaution. That means MSPs relying on those tools could not back up data, reach archives, or restore files. As of Oct 22, :”As previously reported, we identified unauthorized access to application credentials associated with Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick. Our teams and independent specialists continue advancing phased restoration, completing the security validation required at each step. We will share service-specific availability and reconnection instructions as they are confirmed. Previously published findings and partner guidance remain current. We recognize the continued disruption to your business and customers and remain focused on restoring service safely. Keep affected connections disabled until formal instructions apply to your service.” “Existing backup archives remain encrypted, isolated and preserved, with no indication of compromise.” Expect to wait several more days until normal service is restored. … Couchbase, calling itself the Operational Data Platform for AI, today announced an update of its AI Data Plane with new capabilities including native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, in addition to vector search within Couchbase Operational Insights. Together, these innovations give enterprise teams a single governed platform to replace fragmented data services that slow agent deployments, reducing both infrastructure burden and the cost of running production AI at scale. Couchbase unifies key-value, SQL, full-text search, vector search, and real-time columnar analytics on a single JSON data set, so agents get operational and historical context in one call instead of a round trip through separate systems. … DDN has a new CMO, Adam Berlew, and says he brings experience across cloud, AI, hardware, software and services, with a career spanning marketing, go-to-market and product leadership roles at companies including Equinix (CMO), Atlassian, Google Cloud, Broadcom and Dell. He will lead DDNs global marketing organisation as it looks to strengthen its brand, accelerate customer acquisition and connect more organisations with infrastructure designed to support AI workloads. Prior CMO Jyothi Swaroop left in April to be SMO at ChargePoint. … Collaboration supplier Egnyte announced announced Context Studio and AI Control Center; two new platform capabilities designed to help organizations improve how AI uses business context while strengthening control over agent access. Context Studio enables teams to visualize, manage, and optimize the business context behind their AI agents' improving accuracy and reducing AI costs. AI Control Center gives IT administrators a single dashboard to discover every AI agent connected to company content, see what sensitive data each one can reach, and restrict or re-scope that access. To learn more, visit the Context Studio and AI Control Center webpages or watch the State of Egnyte: Fall 2026 virtual event for a detailed walkthrough of Context Studio, AI Control Center, and Egnyte’s AI journey. … JEDEC has established a new task group focused on advancing industry standards for LPDDR persistent memory, with MRAM developer Everspin chairing the effort. The group will focus on simplifying integration and enabling broader adoption of persistent memory across compatible system architectures. Everspin's Steffen Hellmold, VP of corporate strategy, is chairing the task group and brings more than 30 years of experience participating in JEDEC standards activities. The work is intended to enable controller support for both DRAM and persistent memory, as well as approaches that enable LPDDR DRAM and persistent memory from multiple vendors to operate within compatible system architectures. … Austrian banking IT Services provider Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH & Co KG, has implemented a cyber resiliency architecture for its mainframe environment in partnership with Hitachi Vantara. Powered by Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and based on immutable snapshots, the solution reduces recovery time in the worst-case scenario — the total loss of all storage systems across both data center sites — from an estimated seven days to between one and two hours. It also limits potential data loss to two hours. Raiffeisen’s mainframe environment processes approximately one billion transactions per month for more than 1.25 million end customers. Raiffeisen Informatik operates the IT infrastructure for central institutions of the Raiffeisen Banking Group, including Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien, Raiffeisenlandesbank Burgenland, Raiffeisen Landesbank Vorarlberg, and the UNIQA insurance group. Before the project, Raiffeisen Informatik operated two production storage systems across two data center sites, supported by daily FlashCopies and batch backups written to a virtual tape library. The architecture met the four-hour recovery time objectives for standard failure scenarios. Now the firm can cope with an attacker destroying all storage systems across both data centers simultaneously. … IBM announced Q4 fy2026 results with $17.1 billion revenues, up 5% Y/Y, and $2.2 billion GAAP net income. - Software BU revenue up 8 percent to $7.8 billion. - Consulting BU revenue flat at $5.3 billion. - Infrastructure BU revenue of $3.7 billion, up 4 percent, It said storage hardware, in the distributed infrastructure segment - where revenues grew 32%, delivered record revenue growth for its Infrastructure BU, gaining market share across the portfolio. CEO Arvind Krishna said: “AI continues to increase demand for storage and we are gaining share through differentiated offerings across Flash, Fusion, tape, and IBM Z storage, including AI-enabled capabilities that help clients scale and manage data for AI.” CFO Jim Kavanaugh said: “Strength across Storage and Power reflects the growing importance of differentiated infrastructure as clients modernize their environments, address data growth, and support AI at scale. With a sizable backlog in Distributed Infrastructure exiting the quarter, we are well positioned for continued momentum in the fourth quarter. “ In the software BU Kavanaugh said: “Data grew 20%, driven by another strong performance from Confluent, with bookings growth of about 20%.” … A labor union in Taiwan carried out the first-ever strike there, with a small number of workers at Micron’s Taoyuan plant, wanting a profit-sharing scheme for employees. This follows a similar union-employer dispute in South Korea where Samsung agreed to a profits sharing deal with employees. Micron said it wanted to maintain a communications dialog with its employees. … mountOS is a cross-platform, forkable, time-traveling distributed filesystem over S3-compatible object storage. It provides native, POSIX-compliant filesystem access across macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, allowing applications to work directly with object-backed storage without requiring a complete local copy. Unlike traditional fixed-capacity volumes, mountOS uses object storage as its underlying storage layer, with local SSD caching and replicated write handling for low-latency access. It also supports point-in-time filesystem views and writable forks. The system is designed for deployment on infrastructure operated by cloud providers, storage vendors, and enterprises. More information here. … Graph database supplier Neo4j announced its Context Engine, designed to give AI agents a shared understanding of business data and relationships across systems, enabling more accurate and trustworthy enterprise AI. It creates a shared knowledge layer that helps AI agents understand relationships between data and retain knowledge from previous interactions. Capabilities include: - Business Ontology – creates a structured map of an organisation's data, processes and relationships, helping AI agents understand how different parts of a business connect - Context Build and Runtime – connects existing business data sources to the shared knowledge layer, allowing AI agents to access relevant context when carrying out tasks - Context Studio – provides a central platform to build, manage and govern the knowledge and workflows used by AI agents - Context Memory – gives AI agents persistent memory of previous interactions and decisions, allowing them to reuse knowledge and improve their reasoning over time Neo4j Context Engine is now available in private preview. Learn more here. … Vector database and search company Pinecone added on-demand mode to Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). It follows BYOC becoming generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure three weeks ago. BYOC runs Pinecone inside a company’s own cloud account, so the data stays with the company while Pinecone operates the database. Teams in legal, healthcare and financial services use it for exactly that reason. … Data management supplier Precisely announced the Precisely Automate MCP Server and native OData support in Precisely Automate. This release enables AI assistants and applications to interact with SAP automation workflows through a standards-based interface, while supporting SAP Clean Core requirements. OData is SAP's preferred API standard for connecting applications and exchanging data, allowing AI applications and agents to interact with SAP through modern integrations. The Precisely Automate MCP Server, built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposes existing Automate Studio scripts and Evolve workflows as AI-callable tools — giving any MCP-compatible AI platform a standards-based connection to SAP automation. One configuration works across Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI platforms that adopt the protocol, without rebuilding integrations as the AI landscape evolves. Learn more here. … Reuters reports Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to produce NAND flash chips with 200+ layers, aiming to fend off fast-growing Chinese rival YMTC. - Samsung (Xi’an plant): This facility accounts for roughly 40% of Samsung’s global NAND output and currently produces chips around the ~200-layer range. Under an internal project called “Monami,” Samsung is converting it to produce 286-layer V9 NAND. Targets cited by sources: ~5,000 wafers/month by December 2026, ramping toward 40,000 wafers/month by December 2027. Samsung has said the upgrades are to meet demand (including from U.S. customers), comply with U.S. rules, and do not expand overall capacity or add new facilities. - SK Hynix (Dalian plant): Acquired via the 2021 purchase of Intel’s NAND business (now Solidigm). It currently makes ~192-layer chips. Plans are to move to 240 layers or more. Sources indicate it has U.S. approval for up to 240 layers there and may seek further approval for R&D on 300+ layer technology (which could support future U.S. production). This site is Solidigm’s only NAND manufacturing base and is relevant to its planned U.S. IPO. … Sandisk announced the Guardian Series portfolio of high-endurance storage designed for use with 24x7 compatible home security cameras, dash cams and built-in monitoring systems. They enable continuous recording with the durability to withstand harsh environmental conditions, and the continuous overwriting cameras require. The new port
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