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
Get your cheap memory while growing stockpiles push prices low Hot DRAM, market likely to 'bounce back with a vengeance' in '24, says Gartner Storage31 May 2023 | 8
Since when did my SSD need water cooling? Feature As next-gen storage gets hotter, designs are getting wacky Storage27 May 2023 | 51
Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something Storage05 May 2023 | 32
Samsung to cough up third of a billion bucks for ripping off patent Next on Netlist's hit list? Micron and Google Storage24 Apr 2023 | 10
Let's take a closer look at these claims of anti-ransomware SSDs Inevitably, there's AI involved. Could it work? Storage24 Apr 2023 | 33
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops Storage20 Apr 2023 | 16
Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments Which means you may suddenly hit a 5GB limit rather than 15GB Storage06 Apr 2023 | 76
HPE lobs scale-out storage services into GreenLake subscription vehicle Hardware biz trying to compete with cloud giants, wants to rid customers of data silos, reduce cost and complexity Storage05 Apr 2023 | 4
Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it On Call The chap who took the support call for the SEV-1 incident survived – just Storage31 Mar 2023 | 121
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 | 39
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 | 82
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 | 350
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
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