InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage Sponsored Post The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that? Sponsored Post
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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 | 17
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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 |
Conquer your storage challenges for generative AI success HPE's Alletra Storage MP X10000 addresses the problems of AI data management Partner Content
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
Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates Overprovisioning and poor performance can be things of the past for healthcare providers who see the bigger picture Partner Content
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
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan 'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI Updated Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’ ‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues
Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run
China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’
Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
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 | 87
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
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device Storage17 Jan 2025 | 86
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days 'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys Research13 Jan 2025 | 5
The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match How much RAM does an enthusiast really need? Personal Tech09 Jan 2025 | 127
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole Storage07 Jan 2025 | 36
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? Science09 Dec 2024 | 45
AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics Re:Invent One of the most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells us Storage03 Dec 2024 | 3
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators Updated 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275
QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22
Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem Storage18 Nov 2024 | 124
Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users Consumer champion Which? not amused by fruit-based giant's alleged preference for its own cloud storage Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 40
Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2
Jensen Huang asked SK hynix to give Nvidia 12-layer HBM4 chips earlier 12-layer HBM3E hardly off the manufacturing line Storage05 Nov 2024 | 1
Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy' Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback Storage24 Oct 2024 | 43
With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply How embarrassing for Samsung AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |