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 | 1
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 | 199
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 | 45
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 | 3
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
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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
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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
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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 |
Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear The fun folk who attacked Solar Winds using a poisoned CV and tools from the murky world of commercial hackware
Actual quantum computers don't exist yet. The cryptography to defeat them may already be here NIST pushes ahead with CRYSTALS-KYBER, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, SPHINCS+ algorithms
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3
FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024 Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates
Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses
Pentagon: We'll pay you if you can find a way to hack us DoD puts money behind bug bounty program after reward-free pilot
Germany unveils plan to tackle cyberattacks on satellites Vendors get checklist on what to do when crooks inevitably turn up in space
Tuxedo Pulse G2: Linux in your lap Germany's answer to System76 – pre-installed with your preferred distro
Calls for bans on Chinese CCTV makers Hikvision, Dahua expand UK wants to follow US move to stop sales from equipment manufacturers
Has Intel gone too far with its Ohio fab 'delay' stunt? COMMENT With construction unceremoniously underway, x86 giant may have overplayed its hand
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
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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 |
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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 | 202
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
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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
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 Storage08 Nov 2021 | 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 Paid Feature
Microsoft finally remembers Windows on Arm is a thing, reveals native OneDrive client Ignite In preview. For Insiders. By end of 2021. Two full years after Surface Pro X Storage03 Nov 2021 |
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 Storage26 Oct 2021 | 79
Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Storage20 Oct 2021 | 2
DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Storage20 Oct 2021 | 1
Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media On Call Your PC is not a fridge Storage08 Oct 2021 | 165
VMware to kill SD cards and USB drives as vSphere boot options Storage capacity of your hosts could take a hit Storage04 Oct 2021 | 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 Storage29 Sep 2021 |
Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability Updated Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut Storage28 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage21 Sep 2021 |
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 Storage17 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage15 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage09 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage08 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage03 Sep 2021 | 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 Storage01 Sep 2021 | 37
Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict Storage28 Aug 2021 | 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 Storage27 Aug 2021 | 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 Storage24 Aug 2021 | 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 Storage19 Aug 2021 | 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 Storage05 Aug 2021 |
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 Storage05 Aug 2021 | 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 Storage30 Jul 2021 | 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 Storage29 Jul 2021 |
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 Storage27 Jul 2021 | 11
Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner Updated Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground Storage20 Jul 2021 | 3
India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers Alleges it blew a deadline to secure data – by almost three years Storage15 Jul 2021 | 21
HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources Storage09 Jul 2021 |
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 Storage09 Jul 2021 | 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 Storage01 Jul 2021 | 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 Storage28 Jun 2021 | 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 Storage10 Jun 2021 |
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant Storage09 Jun 2021 | 5
Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too Snowflake Summit Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow Storage08 Jun 2021 | 1
Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks Storage08 Jun 2021 | 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 Storage04 Jun 2021 | 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 Storage04 Jun 2021 | 43