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
19 Aug 2021 | 24
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.
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
05 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
20 Jul 2021 | 3
HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral
Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources
09 Jul 2021 |
The present is virtual, the future should be too
Register Debate Containers are visitors from hyperscale-land. They should respect your ways when you invite them in
24 Jun 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
12 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.
04 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
25 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
17 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
03 Mar 2021 | 76
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Well, Brexit meant Brexit
26 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
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
