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
Storage
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 |
Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems
Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups
Storage17 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive
Big emphasis on photos in mobile app
Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
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
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
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
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 | 17
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
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