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
Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about The State of Storage Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 77
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Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 47
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
Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace $100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles SaaS02 Jun 2025 | 7
Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems Partner content
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Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry Applications17 May 2025 | 26
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition Applications13 May 2025 | 28
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off The State of Storage12 May 2025 | 15
Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in Virtualization07 May 2025 |
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney Comment 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Storage08 Apr 2025 | 225
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache The State of Storage27 Mar 2025 | 11
DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers On Call Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear? Storage21 Feb 2025 | 129
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market 15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz Storage19 Feb 2025 | 40
AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics Re:Invent One of the most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells us Storage03 Dec 2024 | 3
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping Virtualization31 Oct 2024 | 7
Say hello to the epi-bit, a new approach to DNA data storage A single gram can hold 215,000 TB. Technique inspired by epigenetics might help unlock that potential Science25 Oct 2024 | 23
The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release POLL: Is VHS back? Cassette-bursting medium revived for latest Alien chest-burster flick Bootnotes23 Oct 2024 | 89
Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error' Microsoft adds another item to the known issues list OSes15 Oct 2024 | 21
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses OSes11 Oct 2024 | 73
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive Big emphasis on photos in mobile app Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Databases24 Sep 2024 | 4
Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance Storage27 Aug 2024 |
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement? Analysis Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing' PaaS + IaaS17 Jul 2024 | 3
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer Could be used to solve long term digital data storage problems too Storage17 Jun 2024 | 8
Law firms seek investors' support in Teradata class action Claim analytics and data platform biz misled investors about size of public cloud forecast Databases17 Jun 2024 | 1
Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues Systems07 Jun 2024 | 1
Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come Computex Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Storage06 Jun 2024 | 3
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year Blame AI. No, seriously Storage27 May 2024 | 101
Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ here at last with a $12 price tag Speedy storage for your Pi 5 Personal Tech15 May 2024 | 28
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day Storage01 May 2024 | 66
Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins Updated Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Applications26 Apr 2024 | 9
45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup Exclusive Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Systems26 Apr 2024 | 10
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' Storage11 Apr 2024 | 24
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech? Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 125
Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard Storage02 Apr 2024 | 7
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle On-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 6
We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System Interview The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Networks15 Mar 2024 | 8
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard Preview's promise ends in digital dust Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22
Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink Databases29 Feb 2024 | 8
FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data But beware – Gparted Live hasn't been updated yet OSes28 Feb 2024 | 45
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023 Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear Storage07 Feb 2024 | 123
NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage Updated Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way Storage17 Jan 2024 | 2
Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure Compute, networking and storage are key, and global sales are still possible – despite, y'know, controversy On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
Raspberry Pi sizes up HAT+ spec for future hardware add-ons First to wear it will be an M.2 connector that draws power from PCIe Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 12
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help Column Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible – but what use is it if we can't find it? Storage06 Dec 2023 | 72