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 | 121
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
Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Storage30 Nov 2023 | 26
Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday You should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case Networks29 Nov 2023 | 8
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished Storage27 Nov 2023 | 100
Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2023 | 1
YMTC accuses Micron of 'freeriding' on its 3D NAND patents Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China Storage13 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 49
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare Storage26 Sep 2023 | 17
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess On-Prem07 Sep 2023 | 58
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation On Call Engineer trumped angry user by pointing to the rulebook Storage01 Sep 2023 | 206
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
Misfiring Lenovo hires Ford director to help with revamp Hold onto your hats people, Lenovo to invest $1B in AI as hardware sales falter On-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 10
Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs Drives are anything but solid, allegedly Storage17 Aug 2023 | 62
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Memory chipmaker Micron's sales down 57% as market bottoms out Company eyes return to memory growth, but warns life on the China ban-list could be hard Systems29 Jun 2023 |
Chinese malware intended to infect USB drives accidentally infects networked storage too Hides itself from popular Asian AV, also uses games to do its dirty work Security23 Jun 2023 | 23
FTC accuses DNA testing company of lying about dumping samples 1Health must strengthen protections for genetic information as part of settlement CSO21 Jun 2023 | 4
SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation Exclusive Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data Storage21 Jun 2023 | 49
Since when did my SSD need water cooling? Feature As next-gen storage gets hotter, designs are getting wacky Storage27 May 2023 | 51
Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1
Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster Channel23 May 2023 |
Western Digital: Customer info stolen in that IT attack Hard times for buyers of these hard drives Cyber-crime08 May 2023 | 8
Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments Which means you may suddenly hit a 5GB limit rather than 15GB Storage06 Apr 2023 | 76
HPE lobs scale-out storage services into GreenLake subscription vehicle Hardware biz trying to compete with cloud giants, wants to rid customers of data silos, reduce cost and complexity Storage05 Apr 2023 | 4
Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong Similar look for FOSS folk, with same UI and OpenZFS storage back-end Storage23 Feb 2023 | 10
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
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 | 50
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 | 136
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 | 125
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 | 56
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