The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO
One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec
03 Mar 2021 | 75
Chris Mellor covers storage and allied technology areas for The Register. After working for DEC, Unisys and SCO, he became an IT journalist, writing for a variety of print publications. He edited the UK's first storage print magazine, moved onto IDG's Techworld, then started up Blocks & Files, a blog bought by The Register. He has written many sportscar buying guides, a few mountaineering guides and drives a car that's faster than he is.
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Well, Brexit meant Brexit
26 Feb 2021 | 314
OVH rises to Europe data sovereignty challenge (and AWS) with tape-as-a-service
Storage cost saver combines IBM tape, Atempo software and OVH data centres
20 Jan 2021 | 4
Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...
15 Jan 2021 | 102
Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives
Processors are 'critical to future products', set to perform tasks for host systems
08 Dec 2020 | 39
A little bit of TLC: How IBM squeezes 16,000 write-erase cycles from QLC flash
Healthy block work paves the way
30 Nov 2020 | 10
Dell joins the 'fast object storage revolution'
Huge performance jump from disk
20 Nov 2020 | 5
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
Expandability traded for performance
19 Nov 2020 | 75
Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage
Register Debate You can bring a horse to water but you can't turn it into a fish
16 Sep 2020 | 6
Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out
Register Debate Cost benefits are oversold – and may be completely wrong
14 Sep 2020 | 17
Not such a DRaaS-tic action, buying into cloud-based disaster recovery in times like these: VMware to swallow Datrium
Undisclosed amount of money to change hands
02 Jul 2020 | 2
Nutanix asks 'staff outside of the US' to take 2 weeks 'voluntary' unpaid leave
Solidarity with their US counterparts in COVID-19 cost cutting measures
06 May 2020 |
HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation
Get your patch in place to avoid future data loss
25 Mar 2020 | 38
The eyeopening multi-billion-dollar merry-go-round of Insight Partners, Veeam – and their one-time beau N2WS
Updated Plenty of cash flying around ahead of that $5bn biz gobble
15 Jan 2020 |
Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam
Moving to America after being swallowed by Insight Partners, which already chucked $500m at it last year
09 Jan 2020 | 26
Nutanix: There have always been losses. You know what's really fattening? Our subs
Market: We're happy with that. (Cue 20% share price boost)
26 Nov 2019 | 3
'Not normal': Dell and NetApp price war puts crimp in Pure Storage revenue growth
Brexit UK and Japan 'more difficult trading environments'
22 Nov 2019 | 7
Dell's new converged play PowerOne: It's a bit like VxBlock, but without all the Cisco gubbins
It's Dell all the way down with subscription payment models
12 Nov 2019 | 3
Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn
Backup a minute, folks
12 Nov 2019 | 2
It's Orphan Data in Backup Hell: No, it's not a Netflix series about storage admins...
Interview ... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps
23 Oct 2019 | 3
Nutanix lures cloudy bingers with Danish trilogy: HPE GreenLake deal, ServiceNow tie-up and ProLiant DX pact
Yep, storage firm's software pre-installed on HPE servers
09 Oct 2019 | 5
Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time
Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020
07 Oct 2019 | 17
No Huawei: Micron hit by oversupply, US-China trade issues as DRAM sales sliced in half
But says customers at last chowing through memory stockpile
27 Sep 2019 | 4
Intel unveils gen 2 Optane SCM, bellows: You Barlow Pass, as it unfurls roadmap
Plus: 144-layer NAND coming in 2020... and a consumer-level QLC flash drive
26 Sep 2019 | 6
