Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney Comment 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Storage08 Apr 2025 | 230
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery? The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays Disaster Recovery Week04 Apr 2025 | 4
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 10
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare Analysis But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? On-Prem31 Mar 2025 | 18
The smart way to tackle data storage challenges Why high-performance object storage is needed for modern data-intensive workloads Sponsored Feature
Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage On Call Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor Personal Tech28 Mar 2025 | 116
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 Off-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 11
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue' Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Personal Tech24 Mar 2025 | 39
AI puts value in data. So how do we get it out? How HPE is helping to manage storage complexity Sponsored Feature
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21
Quad goals: Meta proposes QLC SSDs as a new storage tier in datacenters Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC Storage07 Mar 2025 | 6
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20% On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes Presumably hosted by AWS? Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 23
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked Storage28 Feb 2025 | 180
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
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
Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits That would put America on the same level as China for espionage
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images
Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
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
NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cut Flaky demand for PCs and smartphones blamed Storage17 Feb 2025 | 14
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU DevOps team did the dirty on a database Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
Techie cleaned up criminally bad tech support that was probably also an actual crime On Call Outsourcing is not supposed to involve taking clients' hardware out of their building to your house Storage14 Feb 2025 | 118
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits With drivemaker poised to become 2 publicly traded companies, judge says he has 'concerns' over restructuring Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare Interview Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully Disaster Recovery Week12 Feb 2025 | 16
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried? On Call Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets Storage07 Feb 2025 | 191
Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant' When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97 CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33
How legacy storage infrastructure could endanger your future Your data is critical to AI success. So, are you really taking care of it? Sponsored Feature
Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise Column But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends? Storage29 Jan 2025 | 104
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings Shares slide at 'most profitable' company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics Storage23 Jan 2025 |
OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth' Storage23 Jan 2025 | 38
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device Storage17 Jan 2025 | 86
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days 'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys Research13 Jan 2025 | 5
The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match How much RAM does an enthusiast really need? Personal Tech09 Jan 2025 | 127
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole Storage07 Jan 2025 | 36
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
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
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators Updated 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7
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
Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275
QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22
Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem Storage18 Nov 2024 | 124
Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users Consumer champion Which? not amused by fruit-based giant's alleged preference for its own cloud storage Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 40
Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2
Jensen Huang asked SK hynix to give Nvidia 12-layer HBM4 chips earlier 12-layer HBM3E hardly off the manufacturing line Storage05 Nov 2024 | 1
Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy' Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback Storage24 Oct 2024 | 43
With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply How embarrassing for Samsung AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |
Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups Storage17 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive Big emphasis on photos in mobile app Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3
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 |
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$ Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime Storage06 Aug 2024 | 5
Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem Storage29 Jul 2024 | 48
You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw – and now it's going to hurt some more LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware Patches11 Jul 2024 | 4
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
Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage On Call Hello, hello … what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken Storage05 Jul 2024 | 115
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines? Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand It's already sold out of stock for this year and next Storage01 Jul 2024 |
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone Storage26 Jun 2024 | 95
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed Interview Not a lot, says NetApp's Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Storage21 Jun 2024 | 20
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
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
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20
Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue Storage30 May 2024 |
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year Blame AI. No, seriously Storage27 May 2024 | 101
Micron told to pay $445M in memory patent infringement case Case brought by Netlist involved DRAM modules in computer systems Storage24 May 2024 | 8
Hunger for more HBM capacity could cause shortage DRAM-a Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI Storage21 May 2024 |
Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell NEXT Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor Storage21 May 2024 | 4
Techie invented bits of the box he was fixing, still botched the job Who, me? This is why all-nighters are a bad idea Storage20 May 2024 | 73
Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan Over-50s to get early retirement offer Storage17 May 2024 | 13
AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see SaaS14 May 2024 | 2
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market Storage08 May 2024 | 23
SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025 Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs Storage02 May 2024 | 1
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
Software support chap survived breaking his customer Who, Me? Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around Software29 Apr 2024 | 89
Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... Storage26 Apr 2024 | 1
SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech Storage25 Apr 2024 |
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Storage23 Apr 2024 | 4
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
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Storage16 Apr 2024 | 5
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
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room On Call And be paid danger money while he did it Storage12 Apr 2024 | 134
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
D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users Storage09 Apr 2024 | 23
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5
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
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly Storage26 Mar 2024 | 2