Thomas Coughlin

San Jose

Contributor at Forbes

Digital Storage and Applications Analyst and Consultant 2023 IEEE President-Elect Candidate https://t.co/3I52v1V1f8

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Ultrium/LTO Announces 30TB Native LTO-10 Magnetic Tape

1 week ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

LTO-10, the newest generation of the LTO Ultrium tape format, was announced today. Full-height drives and media are available for immediate ordering from vendors like Symply and Spectra Logic. Shipments of LTO-10 drives and media are to begin in June 2025. The latest generation LTO tape offers native storage capacities of 30TB and 400MB/s transfer speed per cartridge. 2.5X compressed capacities of 75TB are also advertised per cartridge.
Seagate Shows Path To Over 100TB Hard Disk Drives

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

At its Analyst Day event on May 23 Seagate CEO David Mosley reported that in the 12-month period ending March 28, 2025 that it had shipped 550EB of HDD storage. He also reported that 4TB Mozaic HDDs using HAMR technology had been sampled to data center customers and that qualification of these HDDs would start by next quarter with production starting by the first half of 2026. Over 50% of Seagate Exabyte shipments are expected to be on Mozaic HDDs by the second half of 2026.
What's new in ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud (May 2025)

2 weeks ago | esri.com | Thomas Coughlin

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud is an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Cartographers and designers can bring ArcGIS data into Adobe Creative Cloud to create beautiful maps and graphics. New to Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud? Get started with our video tutorial playlist. The May update (version 3.9) adds vector versions of more ArcGIS point symbols, makes .aix files open faster, makes processes run faster, and more. Available now.
IEEE Engineering Milestones Celebrate Global Technical History

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

Continual advances in technology drive much of the world’s economy. These include more recent developments such as the wide-spread implementation of AI. But there is a long history of technical innovations that have changed our world. In order to recognize this history of innovation and to encourage the continual advances in technologies that serve humanity IEEE runs an active IEEE Technical Milestone program.
Nvidia Dynamo And Storage Next Boost AI Storage, Performance And Lowers Costs

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

At the 2025 Nvidia GPU Technology Conference the company announced its AI Data Platform that included significant advances in enterprise digital storage to support corporate AI workloads. However, the company’s KV cache in its Dynamo software and future looking efforts to connect storage and memory more directly with GPUs will drive digital storage and memory demand further, improve inference performance and lower AI costs.
Has The Time Arrived For NVMe HDDs?

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

During the 2025 Nvidia GTC Seagate was showing NVMe prototype hard disk drives in conjunction with Nvidia. While we shouldn’t expect that NVMe HDDs will dominate the market right away, I think there are reasons to think their time is coming soon! Let’s take a look at the history of NVMe HDDs, the 2025 demonstration and discuss why NVMe makes sense as an HDD storage interface that will enable future HDD innovation.
C1Q 2025 HDD Industry Update

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

Data is in for the first calendar quarter 2025 HDD industry from the May 2025 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter. Total HDD shipments in C1Q 2025 were down about 9.5% compared with C4Q 2024 (28.7M versus 31.7M). Total exabytes shipped in C1Q 2025 were down about 4.4% from C4Q 2024. HDD revenues (estimated at $5.2B) were down about 8.4% from the prior quarter. This quarter saw a correction to the upward trend in exabyte shipments as well as revenues, that started four quarters ago.
Japan Visits: NARO, IEEE Honors Event, Osaka Expo & Electric Fish Finder

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

I just spent a busy week in Japan for the IEEE. During this week I visited the area around Kuramoto in Kyushu Island, Japan, where Matt Frances, Director of IEEE Region 5, and I visited a silk factory and a research and development station for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, NARO. I then flew to Tokyo to attend the first IEEE Young Professionals and Laurates Program and VICS and the IEEE Awards Ceremony, which included awarding the first IEEE Medal of Honor with a purse of $2M.
WDC, Microsoft And Material Recyclers Recover Rare Earths From HDDs

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

Hard disk drives contain valuable materials that are used in their construction and operation. This includes rare-earth magnetics that are used in the rotary actuator that allows the heads to write and read information from tracks of data on the disk surfaces. The rare earth elements used in HDDs include Neodymium, Praseodymium and Dysprosium, used because of their unique magnetic properties.
Digital Storage And Memory Impact Of USA Tariffs

1 month ago | forbes.com | Thomas Coughlin

With the ever-evolving trade war and tariffs that likely include digital storage and memory products as well as other electronics it seemed like a good idea to point out that most of the worlds digital storage and memory products are made outside of the USA. Let’s look at the numbers. Digital storage and memory are where the data lives that will fuel the growth of AI training and applications and drive the growth of data centers.