Storage

Analysis

2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came. But 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

30 Dec 2021 12:00 | 17

Networks

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

22 Dec 2021 06:02 | 9

Security

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

16 Dec 2021 06:46 | 4

PaaS + IaaS

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

16 Nov 2021 04:29 | 4

Updated

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut

28 Sep 2021 21:57 | 4

Storage

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

09 Sep 2021 10:00 | 35

Storage

Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components

Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict

28 Aug 2021 08:08 | 49

Storage

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

27 Aug 2021 02:04 | 52

Storage

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 16:01 | 24

On-Prem

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

29 Jun 2021 07:11 |

Storage

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

04 Jun 2021 17:30 | 14

Storage

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?

15 Apr 2021 12:47 | 43

Updated

QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed

Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files

02 Apr 2021 23:07 | 25

On-Prem

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

02 Apr 2021 00:56 |

Storage

Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year

And drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers

01 Apr 2021 19:05 | 9

Storage

Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron

Good news for memory makers, not such great news for wider tech world

04 Mar 2021 18:28 | 1

Storage

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix

14 Jan 2021 22:27 | 99

Science

Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough

Exciting news for green fuel, but quality control, financing will be a challenge

07 Jan 2021 09:13 | 90

Interview

Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?

Just after re:Invent, we talk with storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about the intricacies and future of the AWS storage platform

06 Jan 2021 10:02 | 7

Networks

Aruba warns of storage destruction flaw that bricks some switches

If you own the model 6300 and 6400, upgrade now to ‘prolong life’

09 Nov 2020 06:38 | 7

Storage

The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB

And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts

04 Nov 2020 05:57 | 45

On-Prem

Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC

Including private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet

30 Sep 2020 07:27 | 1

Storage

Crash, bang, wallop: External storage systems still sliding in Europe as customers' budgets stay frozen

Supply chain woes also fingered after second quarter of pain in Europe

11 Sep 2020 13:05 |

Storage

South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle

OpenExpress does away with intellectual property licensing burdens

09 Sep 2020 21:54 | 2

On-Prem

Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2

Revenue dips regardless as big enterprise players struggle during lockdown

09 Sep 2020 05:02 |

Software

Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs

Developers told to hurry up and get features stable as support for other features extends to help slow upgraders

28 Aug 2020 08:20 | 5

Storage

NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers

Q1 beat analysts' expectations

27 Aug 2020 17:46 | 3

Exclusive

NetApp trims workforce by about six per cent, SolidFire seemingly not an eternal flame

Can’t say much until its results are released tomorrow... conveniently

26 Aug 2020 01:30 | 8

SaaS

Mysterious metadata monster swamped Google’s blobs and crashed its cloud

Parts of the GCloud are more robust and survived, but the fix is not yet in for others

25 Aug 2020 07:27 | 6

Devops

Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images

If you haven’t touched yours for six-plus months, you have to cough up to prevent erasure come November

14 Aug 2020 06:44 | 28

Security

Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections

If you're still using a vulnerable box, you ought to factory reset it before patching

27 Jul 2020 21:07 | 19

Software

Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript

We've heard of a code freeze but this is ridiculous: Microsoft finishes burying repos in Norwegian archipelago

17 Jul 2020 05:07 | 59

Software

ReactOS hits a milestone – actually hiring a full-time developer. And we've got our talons on the latest build to see what needs fixing

Open-source Windows lookalike aims to fix its 'long neglected' storage stack

16 Jul 2020 07:04 | 33

On-Prem

Server and storage sales sickened in Q1 and not just because of you know what

IBM's server revenue grew rather nicely, but Lenovo's in a more-shipments-less-revenue trap

10 Jun 2020 07:27 |

Storage

Got a few spare terabytes of storage sitting around unused? Tardigrade can turn that into crypto-bucks

Just not very many – don't go all Bitcoin farming on this

14 May 2020 13:30 | 17

Bork!Bork!Bork!

It looks like you want a storage appliance for your data centre. Maybe you'd prefer a smart card reader?

Beware the dead hand of the product categorisation bot

04 May 2020 08:27 | 38

On-Prem

Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines

Long-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data

01 May 2020 05:28 | 13

Storage

AWS rolls faster and more secure Snowballs

Identity and access management comes to movable edge

17 Apr 2020 05:27 | 2

Security

Zyxel storage, firewall, VPN, security boxes have a give-anyone-on-the-internet-root hole: Patch right now

It's 2020 and pre-auth, superuser command injection is still a thing

26 Feb 2020 21:40 | 15

Storage

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

The days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst

14 Feb 2020 11:30 | 99

Updated

'No BS' web host Gandi lives up to half of its motto... Some customer data wiped out in storage server meltdown

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09 Jan 2020 22:48 | 70

Storage

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

Backup a minute, folks

12 Nov 2019 10:03 | 2

OSes

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

App-quiesced saves fail, workaround is to shrug it off

16 Oct 2019 19:15 | 50

Security

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

API blunder exposes data, fix incoming from Lenovo

16 Jul 2019 13:00 | 12

Storage

DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5

Up to hundreds of petabytes per filesystem, thanks to Lustre

18 Jun 2019 17:00 | 1

On-Prem

SoftIron unleashes the Accepherator. Geddit? It's an erasure coding accelerator for Ceph

FPGAs bring sweet relief to overworked CPUs

20 May 2019 13:30 | 3

Storage

Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it

Troves of deleted data lingers on disks... according to this 'ere study, anyway

25 Apr 2019 18:41 | 54

Storage

Altered carbon: Boffins automate DNA storage with decent density – but lousy latency

An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet!

22 Mar 2019 10:32 | 56

Storage

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

Vast storage savings...er, tragic loss attributed to a data migration gone awry

18 Mar 2019 19:48 | 89

SaaS

High-jacking the Box: Enterprise storage tool's customers leave secrets on web like sitting ducks – including Box itself

Talk about thinking outside the Box... File silos just like poorly secured AWS S3 buckets

11 Mar 2019 23:15 | 4

On-Prem

Storage biz down, but Marvell Technology bullish for 2019

Cavium acquisition will pay off soon, says CEO Matt Murphy

05 Dec 2018 02:50 |

OSes

Big Blue shoos Db2 blues before rogue staff turn the screws in hijack ruse (translation: patch your IBM databases)

Buffer overflow flaw could lead to privilege escalation

29 Nov 2018 21:06 | 3

SaaS

Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets)

AWS comes up with blanket policies to smother public-facing cloud silos

16 Nov 2018 22:12 | 8

Analysis

Upset fat iOS gobbles up so much storage? Too bad, so sad, says judge: Apple lawsuit axed

But at what point do advertised capacity specs become misleading?

08 Nov 2018 01:13 | 52

Security

Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)

Security experts frantically facepalming at stupid design

05 Nov 2018 21:18 | 146

Security

You patch my back(up) and I'll patch yours... Arcserve bugs burrow remotely exploited holes in UDP storage systems

Updates urged for serious web services vulnerabilities

24 Oct 2018 02:20 | 2

Security

'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud

Western Digital NAS machines vulnerable to hijacking via HTTP cookies

18 Sep 2018 20:02 | 17

SaaS

SoftNAS no longer a soft touch for hackers (for now)... Remote-hijacking vulnerability patched

Your files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug

30 Jul 2018 22:06 |

On-Prem

HPE: Hell yeah, those job cuts worked out great… for our investors

'Next' push pads bottom line with revenue boost

23 May 2018 00:31 | 17

Security

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

Risk of ‘financial and reputational damage’ is too high, says CISO

10 May 2018 05:01 | 206

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

Nvidia says its SmartNICs sizzled to world record storage schlepping status

Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data

Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Boffins unveil SSD-Insider++, promise ransomware detection and recovery right in your storage

Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

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

Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE

Latest on iCloud storage 'outsourcing' lawsuit against Apple: Damages class certified

Microsoft OneDrive for Windows 7 drives off a cliff for business users

QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed

Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales

Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year

Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough

Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?

Aruba warns of storage destruction flaw that bricks some switches

The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB

Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC

Crash, bang, wallop: External storage systems still sliding in Europe as customers' budgets stay frozen

South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle

Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2

Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs

NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers

NetApp trims workforce by about six per cent, SolidFire seemingly not an eternal flame

Mysterious metadata monster swamped Google’s blobs and crashed its cloud

Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images

Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections

Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript

ReactOS hits a milestone – actually hiring a full-time developer. And we've got our talons on the latest build to see what needs fixing

Server and storage sales sickened in Q1 and not just because of you know what

Got a few spare terabytes of storage sitting around unused? Tardigrade can turn that into crypto-bucks

It looks like you want a storage appliance for your data centre. Maybe you'd prefer a smart card reader?

Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines

AWS rolls faster and more secure Snowballs

Zyxel storage, firewall, VPN, security boxes have a give-anyone-on-the-internet-root hole: Patch right now

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

'No BS' web host Gandi lives up to half of its motto... Some customer data wiped out in storage server meltdown

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

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5

SoftIron unleashes the Accepherator. Geddit? It's an erasure coding accelerator for Ceph

Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it

Altered carbon: Boffins automate DNA storage with decent density – but lousy latency

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

High-jacking the Box: Enterprise storage tool's customers leave secrets on web like sitting ducks – including Box itself

Storage biz down, but Marvell Technology bullish for 2019

Big Blue shoos Db2 blues before rogue staff turn the screws in hijack ruse (translation: patch your IBM databases)

Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets)

Upset fat iOS gobbles up so much storage? Too bad, so sad, says judge: Apple lawsuit axed

Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)

You patch my back(up) and I'll patch yours... Arcserve bugs burrow remotely exploited holes in UDP storage systems

'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud

SoftNAS no longer a soft touch for hackers (for now)... Remote-hijacking vulnerability patched

HPE: Hell yeah, those job cuts worked out great… for our investors

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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