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Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider

Who, Me? Ignoring the manual led to near-failure of mission to escape with precious pile of verified DVDs

Storage27 Feb 2023 | 92

Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong

Similar look for FOSS folk, with same UI and OpenZFS storage back-end

Storage23 Feb 2023 | 10

Server DRAM to be biggest part of memory market for years

Analyst haus Trendforce sees DC gain where there's consumer pain

Storage21 Feb 2023 |

A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report

Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?

Storage31 Jan 2023 | 37

NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets

210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022

Storage31 Jan 2023 | 6

Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud

'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'

Storage29 Jan 2023 | 5

JEDEC reportedly set to formalize Dell laptop memory standard

So long, SODIMM – or that's the idea, anyway

Storage17 Jan 2023 | 37

Samsung expects profit dive as demand for memory and devices continues to slow

Analysts believe company may cut back on production like Micron and SK hynix

Storage06 Jan 2023 | 11

Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet

Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need

Storage02 Jan 2023 | 83

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

On-Call Sometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off

Storage30 Dec 2022 | 65

Uncle Sam needs novel memory for nuke sims. So why did it choose Intel?

Didn't the x86 giant just blow up its data storage biz?

Storage13 Dec 2022 | 14

Just blob it in: Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure

Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it

Storage12 Dec 2022 | 1

IBM set to bump up storage prices outside the US in the new year

Big Blue confirms DS8000 arrays, and various tape libraries and drives will all cost more

Storage02 Dec 2022 | 2

Iceotope study says liquid immersion is viable for hyperscale disk storage

Since high-capacity drives are increasingly sealed off, that makes them candidates for dunking

Storage01 Dec 2022 | 1

Intel’s axed Optane biz spurts out mixed bag of new SSDs

Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement

Storage11 Nov 2022 | 12

Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000

On Call You'd think tech support people would stick together …

Storage11 Nov 2022 | 356

IBM so confident in supply chain, it's frozen storage prices and has freebies for late shipments

Big Blue tries the Domino's approach

Storage09 Nov 2022 | 3

Micron samples first DRAM built using 1-beta process node

Performance boost down to fresh processes, new materials, and more advanced equipment

Storage01 Nov 2022 | 2

Microsoft's Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update crashes OneDrive

The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week

Storage28 Oct 2022 | 16

Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei

While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives

Storage26 Oct 2022 | 3

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Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake

The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt

Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking

GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip

In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more

LockBit brags: We'll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier

And also, Ring hit with ransomware, too? No, says Amazon

British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles

Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear

Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance

Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?

Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap

Infosys president leaves to join rival Tech Mahindra as CEO

Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more

Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in

10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash

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Intel DAOS 2.2 and Red Hat Stratis 3.3 released

New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest

Storage24 Oct 2022 |

Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC

New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp?

Storage14 Oct 2022 | 12

Samsung teases upcoming DRAM and NAND goodies at Tech Day event

Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too

Storage06 Oct 2022 |

NAND flash prices could drop up to 20% in Q4

TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies

Storage27 Sep 2022 |

Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller?

Storage20 Sep 2022 | 28

'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left

Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige

Storage20 Sep 2022 | 136

Bad UI killed the radio star

Who, Me? Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data

Storage19 Sep 2022 | 44

Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic

On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter

Storage16 Sep 2022 | 125

Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives

The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time

Storage13 Sep 2022 | 53

Computational storage specs hit v1.0 after 4 years of work

Emerging field now has baseline definitions for vendors to work with

Storage07 Sep 2022 | 7

Inflation worries push PC and mobile DRAM demand down, with pricing to follow

Samsung, SK hynix, Micron are in for some pain, claims analyst, plus signs point to stockpiled customer inventory

Storage16 Aug 2022 |

Containers make sense for software, but what do they mean for storage?

Dell's PowerStore OS is even more agile as it hits the big 3.0

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The sins of OneDrive as Microsoft's cloud storage service turns 15

Opinion SkyDrive? Placeholders? Outages? Yes, it's all gone swimmingly

Storage10 Aug 2022 | 45

Flash memory vendors unveil PCIe 5.0 SSDs, latest spec for CXL interconnect tech

Flash Memory Summit Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts

Storage05 Aug 2022 | 3

Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age

Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next

Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12

CXL absorbs OpenCAPI on the road to interconnect dominance

It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z?

Storage02 Aug 2022 |

Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech

Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature

Storage02 Aug 2022 | 19

US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers

Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius

Storage01 Aug 2022 | 16

SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD

Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week

Storage01 Aug 2022 | 1

Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT

Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped

Storage01 Aug 2022 | 148

Micron pledges US memory expansion after CHIPS Act passes

With $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share

Storage29 Jul 2022 | 6

Why Intel killed its Optane memory business

Analysis Effort to create a new tier of memory flopped as rivals offered faster and more open alternatives

Storage29 Jul 2022 | 32

Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads

Analysis Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance?

Storage27 Jul 2022 | 28

Seagate lowers production and sales forecasts amid weakening economy

US datacenter demand holding up, floundering in China. Consumers? 'Spending money on other things'

Storage22 Jul 2022 |

My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?

Something for the Weekend And who's listening to those MP3s instead of me?

Storage22 Jul 2022 | 120

Samsung has 24Gbps GDDR6 ready for higher-performance graphics cards

New DRAM chips will also have an impact in AI processing and HPC fields

Storage14 Jul 2022 | 2

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 | 2

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 | 206

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 | 44

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 | 4

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

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

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

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 |

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

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 |

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 | 204

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

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover

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

Storage24 Nov 2021 | 5

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