Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data
Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
Storage
HPE to offload remaining stake in Chinese joint venture H3C
Nothing to do with Washington and Beijing butting heads, says US giant
On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 1
Google integrates Indian government's cloud services into Android
Collab obviously goes deep – accessing DigiLocker requires use of national identity service
Software20 Dec 2022 |
Just blob it in: Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure
Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it
Storage12 Dec 2022 | 1
Longstanding bug in Linux kernel floppy handling fixed
Good news, everyone! Er, someone. Anyone? Bueller?
Software07 Dec 2022 | 69
IBM set to bump up storage prices outside the US in the new year
Big Blue confirms DS8000 arrays, and various tape libraries and drives will all cost more
Storage02 Dec 2022 | 2
Nutanix buyout may be on the cards with HPE sniffing around
A GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy
Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 1
Iceotope study says liquid immersion is viable for hyperscale disk storage
Since high-capacity drives are increasingly sealed off, that makes them candidates for dunking
Storage01 Dec 2022 | 1
Eat up, Windows 11 users – this is your last non-security preview update for the year
'Tis the season for plugging holes and bolstering security
Software30 Nov 2022 | 17
New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage
Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27
Science22 Nov 2022 | 51
IBM so confident in supply chain, it's frozen storage prices and has freebies for late shipments
Big Blue tries the Domino's approach
Storage09 Nov 2022 | 3
Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app
$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone
Systems08 Nov 2022 |
Microsoft's Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update crashes OneDrive
The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week
Storage28 Oct 2022 | 16
Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei
While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives
Storage26 Oct 2022 | 3
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years
SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings
Security20 Oct 2022 | 4
Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC
New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp?
Storage14 Oct 2022 | 12
HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust
Made your old computer faster but too quiet? Here's a fun fix
Offbeat30 Sep 2022 | 41
NAND flash prices could drop up to 20% in Q4
TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies
Storage27 Sep 2022 |
'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left
Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige
Storage20 Sep 2022 | 134
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic
On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter
Storage16 Sep 2022 | 122
Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives
The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time
Storage13 Sep 2022 | 53
Computational storage specs hit v1.0 after 4 years of work
Emerging field now has baseline definitions for vendors to work with
Storage07 Sep 2022 | 7
Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks
Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed
Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 82
Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant
If it ever gets built, that is
Systems26 Aug 2022 | 35
SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD
Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 1
Cloudy Chinese word processor vendor denies deleting defiant docs
But Kingsoft has admitted to blocking access to some material and Chinese creative types are worried
Software12 Jul 2022 | 10
PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps
Although PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead
Networks22 Jun 2022 | 10
Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market
Embedded World Ideal for corporate fleet dash cameras, smart home security, police bodycams, VSaaS and more, says chip giant
Storage21 Jun 2022 | 54
India lets Mastercard issue new cards again
Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes
Storage17 Jun 2022 | 4
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion
'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses
Messrs Elliott strike again
Storage08 Jun 2022 | 9
AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors
Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance
Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4
Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC
With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs
Systems01 Jun 2022 | 10
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
Networks21 May 2022 | 109
Panzura scores $80 million funding to grow storage footprint
Startup aims to add more than 150 workers by the end of 2022
Storage12 May 2022 |
Samsung unveils hardened SD card that can last 16 years if you treat it right
And apply an asterisk or two
Storage04 May 2022 | 49
VMware walks back ban on booting vSphere from SD cards or thumb drives
Updated But in future won't certify servers that allow booting from removable media
Virtualization29 Apr 2022 | 14
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer
SaaS08 Apr 2022 | 24
If you want to connect GPUs direct to SSDs for a speed boost, this could be it
Go away, CPU, you're not needed here ... mostly
AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 8
Microsoft squashes OneDrive bug that caused files to linger after PC wipe
Never can say goodbye to those documents? Now you can
Storage09 Mar 2022 | 4
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs
But warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions
Storage04 Mar 2022 | 18
Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall
Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call
On-Prem25 Feb 2022 | 4
The end of free Google storage for education
Opinion Bye, bye, free American bytes. I took the GDrive to be levied as .EDU sighs
Storage14 Feb 2022 | 44
Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near
But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure?
Storage10 Feb 2022 | 73
CommVault merges Asian region into EMEA – four months after SaaS launch
Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers
Storage10 Feb 2022 | 3
Toshiba decides Twoshiba's the best strategy, cans plan to create Threeshiba crowd
Strategy to make printer co. its flagbearer dropped, hands that job to infrastructure mega corp
On-Prem08 Feb 2022 | 2
Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag
Data at rest should remain at rest
HPC31 Jan 2022 | 3
Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto
Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom
Security27 Jan 2022 | 19
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
Nvidia says its SmartNICs sizzled to world record storage schlepping status
But did so operating as NICs – the real fun starts in mid-2022 when VMware’s hypervisor for SmartNICs should land
Networks22 Dec 2021 | 9
Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China
Security16 Dec 2021 | 4
Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much
Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2021 | 4
Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability
Updated Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut
Storage28 Sep 2021 | 4
Boffins unveil SSD-Insider++, promise ransomware detection and recovery right in your storage
Firmware-based system recovers encrypted data in seconds, but manufacturers are proving reluctant
Storage09 Sep 2021 | 35
Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components
Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict
Storage28 Aug 2021 | 49
After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time
Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention
Storage27 Aug 2021 | 52
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
Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE
Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped
On-Prem29 Jun 2021 |
Latest on iCloud storage 'outsourcing' lawsuit against Apple: Damages class certified
Plaintiffs say they would've gone elsewhere had they known iGiant was just using Amazon, Microsoft or Google
Storage04 Jun 2021 | 13
Microsoft OneDrive for Windows 7 drives off a cliff for business users
Accidental borkage ... or a not-so-subtle hint that it really is time to move on?
Storage15 Apr 2021 | 43
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed
Updated Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files
Security02 Apr 2021 | 25
Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales
Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco
On-Prem02 Apr 2021 |
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