A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?
Storage31 Jan 2023 | 34
Storage
NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets
210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022
Storage31 Jan 2023 | 6
Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud
'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'
Storage29 Jan 2023 | 5
JEDEC reportedly set to formalize Dell laptop memory standard
So long, SODIMM – or that's the idea, anyway
Storage17 Jan 2023 | 37
Samsung expects profit dive as demand for memory and devices continues to slow
Analysts believe company may cut back on production like Micron and SK hynix
Storage06 Jan 2023 | 11
Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet
Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need
Storage02 Jan 2023 | 83
An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while
On-Call Sometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off
Storage30 Dec 2022 | 65
Uncle Sam needs novel memory for nuke sims. So why did it choose Intel?
Didn't the x86 giant just blow up its data storage biz?
Storage13 Dec 2022 | 12
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
Why hybrid data storage needs a single managed console
Help administering disparate data assets stored across cloud and non-cloud environments should be well received
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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
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
Intel’s axed Optane biz spurts out mixed bag of new SSDs
Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement
Storage11 Nov 2022 | 12
Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000
On Call You'd think tech support people would stick together …
Storage11 Nov 2022 | 356
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
Micron samples first DRAM built using 1-beta process node
Performance boost down to fresh processes, new materials, and more advanced equipment
Storage01 Nov 2022 | 2
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
Intel DAOS 2.2 and Red Hat Stratis 3.3 released
New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest
Storage24 Oct 2022 |
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
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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good
Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree
helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners
Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract
Exclusive Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom
Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux
So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?
Attackers abuse Microsoft’s 'verified publisher' status to steal data
Malicious OAuth apps were the tickets into victims' systems
Broadcom's VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers
As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking
Datadog allegedly asked developer to kill open source data export tool
But the code creator has revived the abandoned code for OpenTelemetry
Linux Mint 21.2 includes a bit of feature creep from the GNOME world
Plus Xfce flavor desktop based on latest version 4.18
Intel cuts some workers’ pay to fund its future
Still plans a ‘competitive dividend’ for investors
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Samsung teases upcoming DRAM and NAND goodies at Tech Day event
Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too
Storage06 Oct 2022 |
NAND flash prices could drop up to 20% in Q4
TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies
Storage27 Sep 2022 |
Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them
Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller?
Storage20 Sep 2022 | 28
'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
Bad UI killed the radio star
Who, Me? Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data
Storage19 Sep 2022 | 44
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
Inflation worries push PC and mobile DRAM demand down, with pricing to follow
Samsung, SK hynix, Micron are in for some pain, claims analyst, plus signs point to stockpiled customer inventory
Storage16 Aug 2022 |
Containers make sense for software, but what do they mean for storage?
Dell's PowerStore OS is even more agile as it hits the big 3.0
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The sins of OneDrive as Microsoft's cloud storage service turns 15
Opinion SkyDrive? Placeholders? Outages? Yes, it's all gone swimmingly
Storage10 Aug 2022 | 45
Flash memory vendors unveil PCIe 5.0 SSDs, latest spec for CXL interconnect tech
Flash Memory Summit Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts
Storage05 Aug 2022 | 3
Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age
Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next
Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12
CXL absorbs OpenCAPI on the road to interconnect dominance
It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z?
Storage02 Aug 2022 |
Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech
Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature
Storage02 Aug 2022 | 19
US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers
Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 16
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
Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT
Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 148
Micron pledges US memory expansion after CHIPS Act passes
With $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share
Storage29 Jul 2022 | 6
Why Intel killed its Optane memory business
Analysis Effort to create a new tier of memory flopped as rivals offered faster and more open alternatives
Storage29 Jul 2022 | 32
Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads
Analysis Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance?
Storage27 Jul 2022 | 28
Seagate lowers production and sales forecasts amid weakening economy
US datacenter demand holding up, floundering in China. Consumers? 'Spending money on other things'
Storage22 Jul 2022 |
My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?
Something for the Weekend And who's listening to those MP3s instead of me?
Storage22 Jul 2022 | 120
Samsung has 24Gbps GDDR6 ready for higher-performance graphics cards
New DRAM chips will also have an impact in AI processing and HPC fields
Storage14 Jul 2022 | 2
Micron releases DDR5 DRAM ready for next-gen servers
The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD
Storage07 Jul 2022 | 2
Databricks promises cheap cloud data warehousing at an eighth of the cost of rivals
Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however
Storage28 Jun 2022 | 2
The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
On Call And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks!
Storage24 Jun 2022 | 206
Chinese startup hires chip godfather and TSMC vet to break into DRAM biz
They're putting a crew together, and Beijing's tossed in $750m to get things started
Storage23 Jun 2022 | 2
If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent
Column Start by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access
Storage23 Jun 2022 | 44
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
512 disk drives later, Floppotron computer hardware orchestra hits v3.0
We pick the creator's brains on why he would undertake such a marvelous ordeal
Storage15 Jun 2022 | 45
Snowflake pledges row-based storage engine for transactional data
Look, investors! A new app dev platform too. Are we living up to your dreams yet?
Storage15 Jun 2022 | 2
Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses
Messrs Elliott strike again
Storage08 Jun 2022 | 9
Behind Big Tech's big privacy heist: Deliberate obfuscation
Opinion You opted out, but you didn't uncheck the box on page 24, so your data's ours...
Storage06 Jun 2022 | 67
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
Even non-sysadmins may find this Linux live ISO handy
Storage27 May 2022 | 34
Snowflake stock drops as some top customers cut usage
You might say its valuation is melting away
Storage26 May 2022 | 3
Who had money on Samsung and Red Hat joining forces on next-gen memory software?
Cloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised
Storage25 May 2022 | 3
Kasten by Veeam adds ransomware detection to K10 data management platform
Kubecon Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan
Storage16 May 2022 |
Micron dangles predictable memory price agreements in front of vendors
The idea? To get investors muttering: DRAM, those gross margins are stable...
Storage13 May 2022 | 4
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 |
Enterprise-strength FreeBSD-based TrueNAS releases v13.0
Plus: iXsystems' NAS OS has a new Linux-based sibling called SCALE
Storage11 May 2022 | 20
Cisco warns of premature DIMM failures
Check 16, 32, and 64GB DIMMs made in the middle to end of 2020, blames manufacturing errors
Storage09 May 2022 | 12
Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia
Calls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank
Storage06 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
Elliott Management to WDC board: Spin out or sell flash biz
Updated HDD and NAND memory maker has 'underperformed by any objective measure'
Storage03 May 2022 | 9
Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes
On Call Doing the floppy fandango
Storage22 Apr 2022 | 204
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection
Interview Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says
Storage12 Apr 2022 | 14
Google Cloud previews new BigLake data lakehouse service
Hoarding a bunch of data that 'may prove useful' someday? Data-wrangling product is aimed at you
Storage06 Apr 2022 | 1
Bain Capital plots to buy Toshiba with help from largest shareholder
Updated The deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids
Storage01 Apr 2022 | 7
Linux kernel patch from Google speeds up server shutdowns
First world problems: Too many NVMe drives, not enough seconds to spare
Storage29 Mar 2022 | 36
Chip designers made bank in 2021 amid global shortage
Absolutely Fabless: A good year for those who don't make the things themselves
Storage24 Mar 2022 | 3
OpenZFS 2.1.3 bugfix brings compatibility with Linux 5.16
It's not just a filesystem, it's an 'open-source storage platform'
Storage12 Mar 2022 | 30
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
Snowflake rolls back growth estimates, wipes 30% off value
Plus $800m Streamlit acquisition – just don't expect a revenue contribution any time soon
Storage03 Mar 2022 | 4
Microsoft goes native with OneDrive on Apple Silicon
Hopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update
Storage02 Mar 2022 | 5
PC OEMs are sitting on 10 weeks-plus of DRAM, says Trendforce
Pandemic-induced supply chain imbalance did it
Storage18 Feb 2022 | 11
Nutanix reshuffles product portfolio into bigger bundles
Plan calls for this to end in tiers
Storage15 Feb 2022 | 2
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
Microsoft tempts G Suite customers with 60% discount
Don't fancy paying for a Google sub after cutoff date? Pay Microsoft instead
Storage11 Feb 2022 | 13
RAID expansion comes to OpenZFS at last
Don't get too excited, filesystem fans – there are limits
Storage11 Feb 2022 | 52
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
'At least' 6.5 exabytes lost after contamination hits Kioxia/WD 3D NAND fabs
Operations at Yokkaichi and Kitakami affected
Storage10 Feb 2022 | 21
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 reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024
I want to be your SledgeMAMR
Storage09 Feb 2022 | 72
Tiny Uber offshoot tries to do for data lakes what Snowflake did for data warehousing
Onehouse's Apache Hudi managed service makes sense but has a long way to go, analysts say
Storage08 Feb 2022 | 2
Back up for a minute – Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies
Failure can be factored in when you're doing your sums, says vendor
Storage01 Feb 2022 | 14
Blistering bandwidth: JEDEC pushes out HBM3 memory specs
All that and improved energy efficiency
Storage28 Jan 2022 | 5
Thanks for the memory: Samsung says DRAM, NAND profits up Q-on-Q, sales down as global supply chain bites
Expects more stability but warns of potential fab lockdowns on road ahead
Storage27 Jan 2022 |
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
If you're unable to share documents, this may be why
Storage25 Jan 2022 | 83
Can you compose memory across a HPC cluster? Yes. Yes you can
GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers'
Storage20 Jan 2022 | 2
Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled
Get ready for a new 'experience'...
Storage14 Jan 2022 | 35
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
Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance
Updated Microsoft aware of the issue months ago, but not fixed yet
Storage08 Dec 2021 | 60
Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled
On Call Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3
Storage26 Nov 2021 | 158
Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover
Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv
Storage24 Nov 2021 | 5
Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters
Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again
Storage17 Nov 2021 | 48
Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data
Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon
Storage16 Nov 2021 |
Remember SoftRAM 95? Compression app claimed to double memory in Windows but actually did nothing at all
Microsoft's Raymond Chen was tasked with digging into the issue
Storage15 Nov 2021 | 107
Biting the hand that feeds IT
