Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Feature Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 33
Chris Mellor covers storage and allied technology areas for The Register and its sister titles. 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-focused print magazine, moved onto IDG, then started up Blocks & Files, a blog bought by The Register's Situation Publishing. He has written many sports car buying guides, a few mountaineering guides, and drives a car that's faster than he is.
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
Feature The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 27
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure
Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
Fresh details on the flash that sits inside Mars Perseverance Rover
Plus space-hardened SSDs planned for lunar DC ... if and when that happens
The Reg in Space15 Jun 2023 | 5
'At least' 6.5 exabytes lost after contamination hits Kioxia/WD 3D NAND fabs
Operations at Yokkaichi and Kitakami affected
Storage10 Feb 2022 | 21
Toshiba reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024
I want to be your SledgeMAMR
Storage09 Feb 2022 | 72
2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came. But about creativity? We can't complain
Analysis DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances
Storage30 Dec 2021 | 17
Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS
Hands up who wants to do that info migration
Storage26 Oct 2021 | 79
DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech
Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest
Storage20 Oct 2021 | 1
Another big year for tape as ... oops. 2020 sales dropped 8% thanks to 'global shutdowns'
Massive shift requiring masses of backup... not backed up in cold storage medium's numbers
Storage19 Aug 2021 | 24
SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz
Chipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes
Storage05 Aug 2021 |
Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner
Updated Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground
Storage20 Jul 2021 | 3
HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral
Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources
Storage09 Jul 2021 |
US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei
Updated The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD
Storage12 May 2021 | 8
HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra
The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.
Storage04 May 2021 | 3
SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out
Existing customers will continue to receive support, however
Storage25 Mar 2021 | 7
Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah chip factory?
Intel's Gelsinger has a decision to make
Storage17 Mar 2021 | 19
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
Storage03 Mar 2021 | 76
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Well, Brexit meant Brexit
Storage26 Feb 2021 | 323
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
Storage20 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...
Storage15 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
Storage08 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
Storage30 Nov 2020 | 10
Dell joins the 'fast object storage revolution'
Huge performance jump from disk
Storage20 Nov 2020 | 5
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
Expandability traded for performance
Storage19 Nov 2020 | 76
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
Databases16 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
Databases14 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
Storage02 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
On-Prem06 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
Storage25 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
Storage15 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
Storage09 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)
Storage26 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'
Storage22 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
On-Prem12 Nov 2019 | 3
Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn
Backup a minute, folks
Storage12 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
Storage23 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
Storage09 Oct 2019 | 5
Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time
Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020
Storage07 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
Storage27 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
Storage26 Sep 2019 | 6
Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems
IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block
Storage20 Sep 2019 | 1
Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs
Cash for acquisitions, new hires and data centre expansion
Storage18 Sep 2019 | 4
WD you like to purchase an NVMe-oF startup? Kazan! Western Dig just did
Storage types pretty excited about getting at arrays over Ethernet via NVMe-oF
Storage11 Sep 2019 |
Dell seasons PowerMax arrays with dash of FC-NVMe and Optane – but it's not a capacity boost
It's a performance upgrade
Storage10 Sep 2019 | 4
Owl in a day's work: Commvault picks up software-defined type Hedvig for $225m
Storage and data management unification play
Storage04 Sep 2019 | 8
MAMR Mia! Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave-energy hard drives out soon
No volume ships until mid-2020, though
Storage04 Sep 2019 | 64
Pure Storage the latest pipes 'n' plumbing playa to slash sales forecast
Look at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either
Storage22 Aug 2019 | 3
Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered
The conference call equivalent of being taken round the back and...
Storage16 Aug 2019 | 15
Sony, Fujifilm storage patent lawsuit is all taped up: Better LTO-8 than never, right?
Reely good news for cold storage fans
Storage06 Aug 2019 | 8
Seagate spins off a bit of cash from slowing disk drive business
Flash? Pa-ahh! Better to put dollars into disk
Systems05 Aug 2019 | 6
MapR misses deadline for sale, biz prospects looking thinner than a Hadoop sales pitch
Clings to its own days of independence but no one is celebrating
Software04 Jul 2019 | 8
You know what's besides the XPoint, Intel? Somebody else's storage-class memory – SK Hynix
Another vendor mounts the crossbars
Storage02 Jul 2019 | 7
One teeensy little 13-minute power cut, and WD you look at the size of that chip supply cut!
Western Digital 'fesses up to taking 6 exabyte hit, Toshiba still mum
Storage28 Jun 2019 | 38
HPE downs Nimble-ful of HCI, lobs third hyperconverged system into its portfolio
The 'd' in dHCI is for 'disaggregated'
Storage20 Jun 2019 | 14
Arrays in a mangler, need new storage bed: Huawei and the US tech block
Analysis A tired Ren Zhengfei'll seek read-and-write heads
Storage20 Jun 2019 | 13
NetApp wraps Elements HCI and Google Cloud Platform in Data Fabric
New cloud services woven into portfolio
SaaS20 Jun 2019 | 1
Nvidia 'brings CUDA to Arm' – Translation: We're still doing a thing we've already done but now doing more of it
Woulda, CUDA, shoulda
HPC17 Jun 2019 | 1
Frontiersman Cray snags $50m storage contract for 'largest single filesystem'
Shasta minute: HPE purchase to provide 1 exabyte of ClusterStor for Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HPC17 Jun 2019 | 24
Be careful what you wish for: Nutanix wanted subscribers, just not that many all at once
Mad dash stalled growth and screwed revenue targets
Systems31 May 2019 | 8
Biting the hand that feeds IT
