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 Sponsored Post
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 Partner Content
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
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 | 250
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 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
Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion
Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam updated Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade
AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte Business transformation, but not much remuneration
Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent
EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others
Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive January update is the gift that keeps on giving
Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration Opinion Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?
Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially
MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help
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? Sponsored Post
The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B How to stay stable when the market shifts around you Partner Content
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 Sponsored Feature
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
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 | 196
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
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