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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.

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2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came... but what about creativity? We can't complain

DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances

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2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came... but what about creativity? We can't complain

Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS

DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech

Another big year for tape as ... oops. 2020 sales dropped 8% thanks to 'global shutdowns'

SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz

Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner

HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral

The present is virtual, the future should be too

US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei

HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra

SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out

Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah chip factory?

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands

OVH rises to Europe data sovereignty challenge (and AWS) with tape-as-a-service

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives

A little bit of TLC: How IBM squeezes 16,000 write-erase cycles from QLC flash

Dell joins the 'fast object storage revolution'

How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers

Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out

Not such a DRaaS-tic action, buying into cloud-based disaster recovery in times like these: VMware to swallow Datrium

Nutanix asks 'staff outside of the US' to take 2 weeks 'voluntary' unpaid leave

HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation

The eyeopening multi-billion-dollar merry-go-round of Insight Partners, Veeam – and their one-time beau N2WS

Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam

Nutanix: There have always been losses. You know what's really fattening? Our subs

'Not normal': Dell and NetApp price war puts crimp in Pure Storage revenue growth

Dell's new converged play PowerOne: It's a bit like VxBlock, but without all the Cisco gubbins

Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn

It's Orphan Data in Backup Hell: No, it's not a Netflix series about storage admins...

Nutanix lures cloudy bingers with Danish trilogy: HPE GreenLake deal, ServiceNow tie-up and ProLiant DX pact

Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time

No Huawei: Micron hit by oversupply, US-China trade issues as DRAM sales sliced in half

Intel unveils gen 2 Optane SCM, bellows: You Barlow Pass, as it unfurls roadmap

Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems

Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs

WD you like to purchase an NVMe-oF startup? Kazan! Western Dig just did

Dell seasons PowerMax arrays with dash of FC-NVMe and Optane – but it's not a capacity boost

Owl in a day's work: Commvault picks up software-defined type Hedvig for $225m

MAMR Mia! Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave-energy hard drives out soon

Pure Storage the latest pipes 'n' plumbing playa to slash sales forecast

Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered

Sony, Fujifilm storage patent lawsuit is all taped up: Better LTO-8 than never, right?

Seagate spins off a bit of cash from slowing disk drive business

MapR misses deadline for sale, biz prospects looking thinner than a Hadoop sales pitch

You know what's besides the XPoint, Intel? Somebody else's storage-class memory – SK Hynix

One teeensy little 13-minute power cut, and WD you look at the size of that chip supply cut!

HPE downs Nimble-ful of HCI, lobs third hyperconverged system into its portfolio

Arrays in a mangler, need new storage bed: Huawei and the US tech block

NetApp wraps Elements HCI and Google Cloud Platform in Data Fabric

Nvidia 'brings CUDA to Arm' – Translation: We're still doing a thing we've already done but now doing more of it

Frontiersman Cray snags $50m storage contract for 'largest single filesystem'

Be careful what you wish for: Nutanix wanted subscribers, just not that many all at once

LTO-8 tape media patent lawsuit cripples supply as Sony and Fujifilm face off in court

NAND down we goooo: Flash supplier revenues plunged in first quarter

Dual carriageway to autobahn: Intel revs up Optane caching memory by doubling PCIe lanes

Weak AF array sales at NetApp leave analysts feeling cold

Another disappointing quarter for Pure Storage as expanded sales team fails to close large deals

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