Storage
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
21 Sep 14:27 |
Storage
Storage
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
17 Sep 14:38 | 5
Storage
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
15 Sep 17:28 | 9
PROMO
When it comes to moving information at the edge, sometimes your best bet is a card
If you’re big on data, short on time, here’s an SD Memory Card workshop just for you
10 Sep 07:30 |
Storage
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
09 Sep 10:00 | 35
Storage
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
08 Sep 06:00 | 17
Storage
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
03 Sep 04:58 | 3
Storage
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
01 Sep 11:20 | 37
Storage
Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components
Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict
28 Aug 08:08 | 49
Storage
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
27 Aug 02:04 | 52
Storage
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
24 Aug 14:07 | 2
Storage
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
19 Aug 16:01 | 24
Storage
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
05 Aug 14:34 |
Storage
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
05 Aug 09:32 | 67
Webcast
Mid-range storage shouldn’t be about revolution, but it shouldn’t be revolting either
Cast off your chains with this webcast
02 Aug 18:00 |
Storage
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
30 Jul 14:43 | 4
Storage
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
29 Jul 18:40 |
Storage
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
27 Jul 14:30 | 11
Promo
Your data is your future. So why trust it to yesterday’s technology?
Learn how to thrive with modern file storage – check out Nasuni CloudBound21
22 Jul 15:00 |
Updated
Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner
Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground
20 Jul 03:33 | 3
Popular
Who, Me?
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter
Software
This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
Security
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more
Legal
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
Exclusive
Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised
Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...
Opinion
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
Personal Tech
Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro
Battery still swappable – rest fiddly
Bootnotes
Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30
Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby
Feature
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot
Security
Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam
That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer
STORIES
Storage
India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers
Alleges it blew a deadline to secure data – by almost three years
15 Jul 02:15 | 21
Storage
HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral
Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources
09 Jul 11:24 |
Storage
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
09 Jul 10:45 | 15
Sponsored
Wondering where your data is? It’s probably chilling on a hard disk
70 years on, and the platters are still top of the storage charts
07 Jul 16:30 |
Storage
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
01 Jul 12:15 | 3
Storage
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
28 Jun 06:58 | 2
Storage
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
10 Jun 23:08 |
Storage
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches
Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant
09 Jun 01:19 | 5
Snowflake Summit
Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too
Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow
08 Jun 13:50 | 1
Storage
Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe
Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks
08 Jun 11:28 | 49
Storage
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
04 Jun 17:30 | 14
Storage
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
04 Jun 05:58 | 43
Storage
Leaving Spark behind, Databricks enters new territory as it eyes 2021 IPO
Will its vision for unified analytics fly?
01 Jun 10:05 | 2
Storage
Home Office slams PNC tech team: 'Inadequate testing' of new code contributed to loss of 413,000 records
Poorly defined business requirements, failure in documentation, independent report finds
26 May 08:30 | 33
Storage
We’ve found them! Govt reinstates records previously missing from the Police National Computer
November scripting error havoc finally fixed
25 May 09:26 | 21
Storage
10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner
We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares
24 May 12:10 | 7
