Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files
AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents
Storage05 Feb 2026 | 59
Storage
Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite
Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 19
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home
Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections
Storage03 Feb 2026 | 7
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit
NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4
Storage02 Feb 2026 | 21
How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies
Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 5
Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update
2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management
Storage26 Jan 2026 | 2
Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive
January update is the gift that keeps on giving
Storage21 Jan 2026 | 44
Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers
Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12
Storage16 Jan 2026 | 23
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise
When margins are this tight, mergers might follow
Personal Tech15 Jan 2026 | 9
Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets
Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you
Storage14 Jan 2026 | 11
SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble
Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers
Storage13 Jan 2026 | 3
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Storage12 Jan 2026 | 124
While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4
Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away
Storage08 Jan 2026 | 10
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs
NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner
Storage07 Jan 2026 | 15
Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver
Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
Storage23 Dec 2025 | 107
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul
We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg
Storage20 Dec 2025 | 77
Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration
Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600
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Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood
AI-nflation Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery
Personal Tech16 Dec 2025 | 27
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers
Storage14 Dec 2025 | 102
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Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips
Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage
Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer
System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
Rhapsody in beige
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs
Marketing stunt backfires with creators
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records
UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI
There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits
STORIES
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
On Call Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up
Storage12 Dec 2025 | 251
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours
On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security
Applications05 Dec 2025 | 111
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches
First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?
Storage03 Dec 2025 | 81
Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof
Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch
Storage01 Dec 2025 | 74
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
Updated OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 90
Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away
Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first
Storage21 Nov 2025 | 111
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor
Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too
Virtualization21 Nov 2025 | 9
NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data
Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting
Storage18 Nov 2025 | 13
InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage
The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that?
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The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B
How to stay stable when the market shifts around you
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Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry
Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is America's great hope
Supercomputing Month11 Nov 2025 | 22
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it
How your data strategy can fuel innovation
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Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 47
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
Databases05 Nov 2025 |
The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future
Feature The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative
Storage16 Oct 2025 | 9
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily
Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!
Storage13 Oct 2025 | 101
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders
Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher
Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 | 7
OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject
Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month
Storage02 Oct 2025 | 4
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory
Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year
Personal Tech01 Oct 2025 | 22
Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump
President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week
PaaS + IaaS23 Sep 2025 | 19
Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions
Doing a simple system reset may not be enough to save you from fines and lawsuits
Security14 Sep 2025 | 64
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart
But it reads at about the speed of punch cards
Storage12 Sep 2025 | 6
Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable
Analysis Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth?
Systems10 Sep 2025 | 2
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK
Exclusive Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025
Storage05 Sep 2025 | 11
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers
On Call Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk
Networks05 Sep 2025 | 122
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb
AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 6
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown
Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up
Storage03 Sep 2025 | 44
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers
Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019
Networks02 Sep 2025 | 31
DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix
But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission
Virtualization28 Aug 2025 | 6
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results
Who, Me? The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training
Storage18 Aug 2025 | 132
Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4
Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update
Virtualization11 Aug 2025 | 1
Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Who, Me? Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes
On-Prem11 Aug 2025 | 88
Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine
No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims
Storage07 Aug 2025 |
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev
Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 | 80
Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools
Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE
Software06 Aug 2025 | 5
Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords
Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months
Security30 Jul 2025 | 81
Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling
Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?
Offbeat30 Jul 2025 | 44
And now for our annual ‘Tape is still not dead’ update
176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump
Storage23 Jul 2025 | 46
CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite
World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next
On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 7
HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast
Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
Storage15 Jul 2025 | 10
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 6
UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives
Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever
Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 41
WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1
SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order
Storage24 Jun 2025 | 19
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline
Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising
Networks13 Jun 2025 | 6
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 33
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
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 7
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Who, Me? Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter
On-Prem02 Jun 2025 | 105
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage
Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL
Storage30 May 2025 | 21
Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users
Updated Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues
Storage29 May 2025 | 7
Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes
Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher
On-Prem23 May 2025 | 29
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert
Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed
Patches13 May 2025 |
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off
The State of Storage12 May 2025 | 15
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
The State of Storage09 May 2025 | 157
Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert
Asus implements droop detector for PCIe slots as GPUs now so heavy they risk toppling out
Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 87
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit
The State of Storage29 Apr 2025 | 16
US biz stockpilers boost SK Hynix top line as memory market undergoes structural change
'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures
Storage24 Apr 2025 |
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 | 67
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 | 116
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney
Comment 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot
Storage08 Apr 2025 | 217
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
The State of Storage04 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
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 | 118
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
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
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 | 22
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 | 182
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 | 130
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 | 41
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
