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SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
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Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3
Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance Storage27 Aug 2024 |
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$ Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime Storage06 Aug 2024 | 5
Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem Storage29 Jul 2024 | 48
You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw – and now it's going to hurt some more LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware Patches11 Jul 2024 | 4
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
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Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage On Call Hello, hello … what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken Storage05 Jul 2024 | 115
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines? Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand It's already sold out of stock for this year and next Storage01 Jul 2024 |
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone Storage26 Jun 2024 | 95
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed Interview Not a lot, says NetApp's Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Storage21 Jun 2024 | 20
Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy' Interview Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey
Forget the Kia Boyz: Crooks could hijack your car with just a smartphone Infosec In Brief Plus: UK man charged with compromising firms for stock secrets; ransomware actor foils self; and more
India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan's expense PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual 'key milestone'
China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband Great Firewall reaches all the way into space
AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important
Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who's really the boss?
Personalized pop-up was funny for about a second, until it felt like stalking Who, Me? The call was coming from inside the house
Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip It won't smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can't
Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster Blue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update
Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban A very expensive 2 days in September for the blocked social media platform
In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer Could be used to solve long term digital data storage problems too Storage17 Jun 2024 | 8
Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come Computex Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Storage06 Jun 2024 | 3
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20
Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue Storage30 May 2024 |
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year Blame AI. No, seriously Storage27 May 2024 | 101
Micron told to pay $445M in memory patent infringement case Case brought by Netlist involved DRAM modules in computer systems Storage24 May 2024 | 8
Hunger for more HBM capacity could cause shortage DRAM-a Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI Storage21 May 2024 |
Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell NEXT Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor Storage21 May 2024 | 4
Techie invented bits of the box he was fixing, still botched the job Who, me? This is why all-nighters are a bad idea Storage20 May 2024 | 73
Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan Over-50s to get early retirement offer Storage17 May 2024 | 13
AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see SaaS14 May 2024 | 2
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market Storage08 May 2024 | 23
SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025 Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs Storage02 May 2024 | 1
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day Storage01 May 2024 | 66
Software support chap survived breaking his customer Who, Me? Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around Software29 Apr 2024 | 89
Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... Storage26 Apr 2024 | 1
SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech Storage25 Apr 2024 |
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Storage23 Apr 2024 | 4
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Storage16 Apr 2024 | 5
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room On Call And be paid danger money while he did it Storage12 Apr 2024 | 134
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' Storage11 Apr 2024 | 24
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users Storage09 Apr 2024 | 23
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5
Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard Storage02 Apr 2024 | 7
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly Storage26 Mar 2024 | 2
Micron bounces back as AI drives up memory prices 'Our HBM is sold out for calendar 2024,' trills CEO Storage21 Mar 2024 | 1
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Storage18 Mar 2024 | 95
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard Preview's promise ends in digital dust Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22
Chinese chip slinger found not guilty of stealing memory secrets from Micron Fujian Jinhua escapes prosecution tho remains on the US sanctions list Storage28 Feb 2024 | 1
HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier On-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 3
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72
Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38
Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 45
Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Storage20 Feb 2024 | 60
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023 Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear Storage07 Feb 2024 | 122
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions Storage01 Feb 2024 | 4
Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says Storage01 Feb 2024 | 7
Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic Who, Me? Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity Storage29 Jan 2024 | 73
University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB Updated Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment Storage19 Jan 2024 | 77
NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage Updated Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way Storage17 Jan 2024 | 2
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0 Essential tool for PC troubleshooting, even if you never run anything but Windows Storage11 Jan 2024 | 19
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware Who, Me? Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there – what a pity if something …happened to it Storage11 Dec 2023 | 107
Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help Column Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible – but what use is it if we can't find it? Storage06 Dec 2023 | 72
Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully who, me? Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up Storage04 Dec 2023 | 57
Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Storage30 Nov 2023 | 26
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished Storage27 Nov 2023 | 100
Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams Mega startup serves slice of GenAI with data engineering main as it tries to upstage Microsoft’s Fabric showpiece Storage16 Nov 2023 |
Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data Sneakernet for the stars? Storage16 Nov 2023 | 35
Backblaze starts tracking hot drives as world preps for rising global temperatures Quarterly stats to show when units exceed manufacturer max temp Storage14 Nov 2023 | 4
YMTC accuses Micron of 'freeriding' on its 3D NAND patents Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China Storage13 Nov 2023 | 2
It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules Storage09 Nov 2023 | 111
Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption Storage02 Nov 2023 | 2
Western Digital execs vote to split biz in two: HDD and flash Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Storage30 Oct 2023 | 10
SK hynix puts the boot into Kioxia-Western Digital merger 'The company is not agreeing to the deal at this time' Storage26 Oct 2023 |
That script I wrote three years ago is now doing what? How many times? Who, Me? Whipping up a RAID repair nearly produced data doom Storage23 Oct 2023 | 76
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare Storage26 Sep 2023 | 17
Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream Smaller footprint and detachable Storage26 Sep 2023 | 6
Snowflake's Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud Opinion If customers can slash bills by 'optimizing,' what does that mean for revenue? Storage05 Sep 2023 | 8
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation On Call Engineer trumped angry user by pointing to the rulebook Storage01 Sep 2023 | 206
Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization' Everybody chill, we're still in the cart Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
Now NetApp sued by its own veep over claims of broken sales commission promises I was screwed out my cut, alleges exec in fraud, discrimination lawsuit Storage23 Aug 2023 | 11
Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs Drives are anything but solid, allegedly Storage17 Aug 2023 | 62
OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS Storage16 Aug 2023 | 18
Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Storage08 Aug 2023 | 7
Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Storage20 Jul 2023 | 3
SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation Exclusive Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data Storage21 Jun 2023 | 49
Hijacked S3 buckets used in attacks on npm packages Cybercrooks use abandoned AWS storage tool to deliver malware Storage19 Jun 2023 | 7