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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'...

14 Jan 10:25 | 34

2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came... but what about creativity? We can't complain

DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances

30 Dec 12:00 | 17

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Microsoft aware of the issue months ago, but not fixed yet

08 Dec 14:41 | 60

The future is uncertain. Are you sure your storage is ready for it?

Watch this web broadcast on-demand and see what innovation looks like

Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled

Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3

26 Nov 08:31 | 158

When it comes to enterprise storage, the new normal has to be innovation

Tune into this web broadcast and we'll bring you right up to the cutting edge

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover

Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv

24 Nov 15:42 | 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

17 Nov 08:04 | 48

Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data

Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon

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

15 Nov 15:44 | 107

New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022

It'll be 10 and 11 only if you want that personal file synchronisation action

08 Nov 13:24 | 41

Rishi Sunak wants to help you upgrade your data centre … Here’s how

Don’t trash your middle-aged servers. They probably just need a memory transplant

Microsoft finally remembers Windows on Arm is a thing, reveals native OneDrive client

In preview. For Insiders. By end of 2021. Two full years after Surface Pro X

Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS

Hands up who wants to do that info migration

26 Oct 15:15 | 79

Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag

AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D

20 Oct 19:55 | 2

DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech

Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest

20 Oct 15:13 | 1

Put data first when deploying scale-out file storage for accelerated systems

'When storage hardware is added as a quick fix without a well thought out strategy, problems will often arise'

Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media

Your PC is not a fridge

08 Oct 07:44 | 165

VMware to kill SD cards and USB drives as vSphere boot options

Storage capacity of your hosts could take a hit

04 Oct 11:31 | 39

Memory maker Micron offers hope for PC parts supply returning 'in the coming months'

Oh, and boasts over record-breaking return from IoT segment, too

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Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away

Nobody expects the Linux malposition, do they, Michael Palin?

Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds

Please Mr Hitchcock, no more. The UPS can't take it

Bug in WebKit's IndexedDB implementation makes Safari 15 leak Google account info... and more

Glitch is spilling private data and there's not much Apple users can do about it

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

Sorry, that IP address is on the naughty step

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

Stop horsing around. Pony up

Ukraine blames Belarus for PC-wiping 'ransomware' that has no recovery method and nukes target boxen

And for last week's digital graffiti operations, too

Buy 'em by the punnet: Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk

'Reel'-y cheap – like $0.70 a pop

Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as 'root cause' of prolonged network outage

'Malicious activity on our network' spotted, says CEO, as some contractors say they've still not been paid

Edge computing set for growth – that is, when we can agree what it is

Analyst predicts double-digit percentage uptick in '22

Cloud spending back to business as usual at end of 2021: Slight slowdown was a blip due to overprovisioning

IDC figures suggest providers had extra inventory to shift after pandemic panic

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Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut

28 Sep 21:57 | 4

Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools

Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m

Snowflake doubters voice reservations over data warehouse's attempt to break into financial services

On-prem systems hold advantages in terms of known costs, say insiders

17 Sep 14:38 | 5

Speciality electronics outfit boasts of 64-fold density increase for its latest space-ready MRAM parts

Takes Avalanche's latest STT-MRAM tech and packs it into rad-hard ceramic squares

15 Sep 17:28 | 9

Boffins unveil SSD-Insider++, promise ransomware detection and recovery right in your storage

Firmware-based system recovers encrypted data in seconds, but manufacturers are proving reluctant

09 Sep 10:00 | 35

If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted

Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support

08 Sep 06:00 | 17

DRAM-as-cache is too expensive for even Facebook – Zuck now blending it with NVM SSD drives

Open-sources the tool it uses to make that happen and says Intel, Samsung, Open Compute, Western Digital and others are keen to play

03 Sep 04:58 | 3

Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow

New flash-and-platter architecture offers 'breakthrough in storage that works differently,' firm claims

01 Sep 11:20 | 37

Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components

Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict

28 Aug 08:08 | 49

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention

27 Aug 02:04 | 52

Samsung splurges $200bn to bring 'new future order' over next few years – meaning chips, pharma, comms

Apparently the revolution is now, and it is well funded

24 Aug 14:07 | 2

Another big year for tape as ... oops. 2020 sales dropped 8% thanks to 'global shutdowns'

Massive shift requiring masses of backup... not backed up in cold storage medium's numbers

19 Aug 16:01 | 24

SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz

Chipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes

Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe

Knock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too

05 Aug 09:32 | 69

UK regulator waves through SK Hynix's $9bn acquisition of Intel's NAND and SSD biz

Number of 'strong remaining competitors' within the market planning expansions of their own, says CMA

30 Jul 14:43 | 4

Thanks for the memory: Add Samsung to the list of tech giants raking it in despite supply concerns

Turns out that Austin factory shutdown was nothing but a blip

SK Hynix hits 3-year revenue high as extreme ultraviolet production kicks off in earnest

Commercial EUV LPDDR4 modules in the works now, but the 1anm node is still being treated as a test-bed

27 Jul 14:30 | 11

Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner

Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground

20 Jul 03:33 | 3

India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers

Alleges it blew a deadline to secure data – by almost three years

15 Jul 02:15 | 21

HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral

Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources

Teradata customers express terror as field-based hardware support outsourced to IBM on both sides of the pond

Sources fear Big Blue lacks knowledge to keep systems running smoothly

09 Jul 10:45 | 15

Micron announces EUV fabs by 2024 as it flogs Utah facility to Texas Instruments

Oh, and it would like everyone to know it had a fantastic sales quarter, natch

01 Jul 12:15 | 3

Backblaze, long a champion of home-grown hardware, succumbs to the lure of commodity servers

Exabyte-tending cloud storage outfit’s new data centre was built on Dell storage servers, but its own kit will live on

28 Jun 06:58 | 2

Snowflake agrees it's good to share... on its platform, while Databricks opts for a more vendor-neutral approach

Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field

SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches

Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant

09 Jun 01:19 | 5

Snowflake Summit

Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too

Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow

08 Jun 13:50 | 1

Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe

Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks

08 Jun 11:28 | 49

Latest on iCloud storage 'outsourcing' lawsuit against Apple: Damages class certified

Plaintiffs say they would've gone elsewhere had they known iGiant was just using Amazon, Microsoft or Google

04 Jun 17:30 | 14

Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks

Looks forward to nicely lowered costs as production ramps up, but they're still hyperscaler-only for now

04 Jun 05:58 | 43

Leaving Spark behind, Databricks enters new territory as it eyes 2021 IPO

Will its vision for unified analytics fly?

01 Jun 10:05 | 2

Home Office slams PNC tech team: 'Inadequate testing' of new code contributed to loss of 413,000 records

Poorly defined business requirements, failure in documentation, independent report finds

26 May 08:30 | 33

We’ve found them! Govt reinstates records previously missing from the Police National Computer

November scripting error havoc finally fixed

25 May 09:26 | 21

10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner

We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares

24 May 12:10 | 7

Big red buttons and very bad language: A primer for life in the IT world

Guess what I learned at school today, Mummy!

24 May 07:30 | 114

Europe gives SK Hynix the nod to gobble up Intel's NAND flash and solid-state drive biz

I have you now, Samsung

22 May 07:38 | 4

Cisco discloses self-sabotaging SSD bug that causes rolling outages for some Firepower appliances

Boxes stop working, admins may be locked out after 28,224 hours – and then every 1,008 hours after that

20 May 01:56 | 7

US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei

The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD

12 May 16:55 | 8

Fibre Channel is still around. And now it's end-to-end at a sizzling-ish 64Gbit/s

Broadcom unveils an HBA to complete the set of seventh-gen kit

12 May 10:02 | 6

HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra

The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.

04 May 15:00 | 3

Oh no it isn't... Oh yes it is... Microsoft confirms OneDrive lives on under Windows 7

Panto season comes early in Redmond as TLS tweaks revive software

29 Apr 07:02 | 7

UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units

Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services

28 Apr 11:30 | 6

Salesman who helped land Veritas UK's 'largest ever' deal was lawfully docked £275k in commission, says judge

You win some, then you lose some

26 Apr 10:45 | 36

Microsoft OneDrive for Windows 7 drives off a cliff for business users

Accidental borkage ... or a not-so-subtle hint that it really is time to move on?

15 Apr 12:47 | 43

Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual

Up to 18.4 million petabytes... which should be useful to someone

09 Apr 14:10 | 32

Seagate claims it shipped its third zettabyte of storage in record time

36 years to hit 1 ZB. Then, like buses, none for ages, then 2 ZB almost at once

07 Apr 04:58 | 20

Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year

And drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers

01 Apr 19:05 | 9

Hitachi slurps GlobalLogic for $9.6bn to bolster IoT prospects

Capitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era

01 Apr 06:29 | 1

Samsung aims first 512GB DDR5 DRAM chip built on High-K/Metal Gate tech at HPC, AI markets

Double the bandwidth of DDR4, with 13% less power consumption

25 Mar 16:38 | 4

SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out

Existing customers will continue to receive support, however

25 Mar 12:31 | 7

Oracle's 'self-driving cloud data warehouse' hides SQL behind a GUI... if needed

Big Red hopes automation will tempt new customers to its cloud

24 Mar 09:30 | 6

Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook

Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?

23 Mar 12:51 | 34

SK Hynix boss predicts CPUs and RAM will merge, chipmakers will hold hands to make it happen

Seok-Hee Lee tips Compute Express Link memory to become the next big thing

23 Mar 06:02 | 21

Staff and students at Victoria University of Wellington learn the most important lesson of all: Keep your files backed up

At last, after a year, my PhD is finally complee- bzzt!

19 Mar 20:58 | 58

Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah chip factory?

Intel's Gelsinger has a decision to make

17 Mar 11:45 | 19

Can Teradata avoid being grounded by on-prem legacy? Actually it helps in avoiding nasty cloud costs, says CEO

40-year-old data warehousing outfit has its work cut out challenging the new cloud-native kids

17 Mar 11:05 | 9

SK Hynix starts churning out 18GB LPDDR5 mobile memory chips – with ASUS first in line

And here's us thinking 640KB was enough for anyone

08 Mar 20:11 | 3

Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron

Good news for memory makers, not such great news for wider tech world

04 Mar 18:28 | 1

Blizzard brain: Snowflake doubles revenue. Market takes a look, goes slushy

High-growth hungry investors worrying you? Try hyperscalers!

04 Mar 16:08 | 6

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec

03 Mar 12:42 | 76

Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands

Well, Brexit meant Brexit

26 Feb 11:15 | 323

Microsoft unveils swappable SSDs for Surface Pro 7+ but 'strongly discourages' users from upping their capacity

Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you

24 Feb 12:01 | 55

Minister tells the House of Lords it'll be another 12 weeks before UK's deleted criminal records can be restored

99.5% were from before 2011 – so that's OK

09 Feb 11:31 | 39

Samsung seeks to have almost $1bn shaved off property taxes for planned Texas semiconductor fab

Company notes that it can always take its biz elsewhere as tech firms jostle to move to Lone Star state

05 Feb 16:57 | 12

Teradata's strong cloud growth holds Snowflake avalanche at bay – for now

'We've effectively configured our transition to a subscription model'

05 Feb 14:32 | 1

Funding frenzy from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce pumps ex-Hadoop wrangler Databricks' value to $28bn

Oof, that's gotta hurt for Cloudera, which is sitting at a paltry $4.6bn

02 Feb 15:28 | 2

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware

02 Feb 04:58 | 108

Two years later, SK Hynix's £2.2bn EUV DRAM factory is ready to go

It started building M16 when 'overall semiconductor memory was amid downturn'

01 Feb 14:51 | 4

UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back

And the possible impact of erased DNA and fingerprint data on live police investigations? Nope, doesn't know that either

21 Jan 09:30 | 61

OVH rises to Europe data sovereignty challenge (and AWS) with tape-as-a-service

Storage cost saver combines IBM tape, Atempo software and OVH data centres

20 Jan 16:17 | 4

150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist

18 Jan 13:15 | 154

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...

15 Jan 12:09 | 102

Vatican absolved of one financial sin after revelation of data discrepancies

Anti-money-laundering agency says it mis-interpreted info, leading to allegations of unexplained $1.8bn transfer to Australia

15 Jan 07:06 | 14

Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features

Firmware updates aren't enough to tackle worn-out memory

14 Jan 23:40 | 111

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix

14 Jan 22:27 | 99

Semiconductor-flinger SK Hynix raises $1bn to green up its act

Toxic wastewater and resource hungry - wafer-fabbing's a mucky biz

14 Jan 12:29 | 6

100GB doesn't always cut it in these remote-working times so Microsoft has upped OneDrive file size upload limit to 250GB

Fewer files now needed before additional storage purchase is required

13 Jan 14:00 | 10

Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?

Just after re:Invent, we talk with storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about the intricacies and future of the AWS storage platform

06 Jan 10:02 | 7

Hey Presto! Teradata admits its vision is dead by hooking QueryGrid analytics platform up to rival data warehouses

Snowflake? We can query that

17 Dec 16:15 | 1

Alibaba Cloud sets its VMware partnership snowballing with hybrid storage appliances

Reveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em

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