At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital (now rebranded as WD) unveiled a customer-centric storage roadmap to reinvent hard drives for AI-era infrastructure, spanning 100TB+ HDDs, new performance- and power-optimized architectures, and an intelligent platform designed to improve storage economics and time-to-value. WD confirmed its 40TB UltraSMR ePMR drive is currently in customer qualification,

Intel is expanding its workstation portfolio with the introduction of Intel Xeon 600 processors for client workstations, a new high-end desktop platform designed for heavily threaded, memory-intensive, and accelerator-rich professional workloads. Positioned above mainstream desktop workstation CPUs, the Xeon 600 targets engineering, simulation, AI development, media production, and financial modeling environments where scale, bandwidth, and

Backblaze has released its Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which provides insight into how traffic flows across its platform and what that activity reveals about modern AI infrastructure. This is the company’s second quarterly Network Stats publication, alongside its ongoing Drive Stats and Performance Stats series, and focuses on network-level behavior, including ingress, egress, bandwidth

VDURA has introduced a new “Flash Relief Program” for organizations facing sharp NAND-driven price volatility and constrained SSD supply. The company positions the offer as a direct response to escalating all-flash platform costs and extended lead times, particularly for high-capacity SSDs used in AI and high-performance file system deployments. Market context: NAND pricing shock and

Microsoft has introduced Maia 200, a new custom inference accelerator designed to improve the economics of AI token generation at scale. Positioned as the company’s first silicon and system platform optimized specifically for AI inference. Microsoft frames AI inference around an “efficient frontier” that balances capability and accuracy against cost, latency, and energy. In practice,

VAST Data introduced VAST Amplify, a capacity-optimization and customer-engagement program designed to help enterprises and service providers increase effective flash capacity by leveraging SSDs already deployed in their environments. Positioned for a market where storage lead times and allocation windows are tightening, the program focuses on identifying underutilized flash and rapidly qualifying existing hardware for

OnLogic has expanded its portfolio of industrial computing hardware with the introduction of the CL260, a compact, fanless system designed as an edge gateway for large industrial deployments. Positioned as the newest member of the CL200 Series, the CL260 targets applications where space constraints, long-term reliability, and cost control are as crucial as baseline computing

TerraMaster has expanded its range of direct-attached storage with the release of the D1 SSD Pro, a Thunderbolt 5-compatible M.2 NVMe enclosure designed for users who rely on sustained high-speed data access in mobile or studio-based environments. The new enclosure targets professional creatives, developers, and power users who require desktop-class storage performance in a compact,

At Intersec 2026, Seagate announced new 32TB hard drives across its Exos, SkyHawk AI, and IronWolf Pro product lines, positioning them for AI-driven video analytics at the edge, NAS deployments, and large-scale data centers. Seagate SkyHawk AI 32TB IDC estimates that more than 75% of organizations expect their video data volumes to at least double