UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units
Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services
Storage28 Apr 2021 | 6
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Salesman who helped land Veritas UK's 'largest ever' deal was lawfully docked £275k in commission, says judge
You win some, then you lose some
Storage26 Apr 2021 | 36
Microsoft OneDrive for Windows 7 drives off a cliff for business users
Accidental borkage ... or a not-so-subtle hint that it really is time to move on?
Storage15 Apr 2021 | 43
Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual
Up to 18.4 million petabytes... which should be useful to someone
Storage09 Apr 2021 | 32
Seagate claims it shipped its third zettabyte of storage in record time
36 years to hit 1 ZB. Then, like buses, none for ages, then 2 ZB almost at once
Storage07 Apr 2021 | 20
Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year
And drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers
Storage01 Apr 2021 | 9
Hitachi slurps GlobalLogic for $9.6bn to bolster IoT prospects
Capitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era
Storage01 Apr 2021 | 1
Samsung aims first 512GB DDR5 DRAM chip built on High-K/Metal Gate tech at HPC, AI markets
Double the bandwidth of DDR4, with 13% less power consumption
Storage25 Mar 2021 | 4
SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out
Existing customers will continue to receive support, however
Storage25 Mar 2021 | 7
Oracle's 'self-driving cloud data warehouse' hides SQL behind a GUI... if needed
Big Red hopes automation will tempt new customers to its cloud
Storage24 Mar 2021 | 6
Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook
Updated Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?
Storage23 Mar 2021 | 34
SK Hynix boss predicts CPUs and RAM will merge, chipmakers will hold hands to make it happen
Seok-Hee Lee tips Compute Express Link memory to become the next big thing
Storage23 Mar 2021 | 21
Staff and students at Victoria University of Wellington learn the most important lesson of all: Keep your files backed up
At last, after a year, my PhD is finally complee- bzzt!
Storage19 Mar 2021 | 58
Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah chip factory?
Intel's Gelsinger has a decision to make
Storage17 Mar 2021 | 19
Can Teradata avoid being grounded by on-prem legacy? Actually it helps in avoiding nasty cloud costs, says CEO
Interview 40-year-old data warehousing outfit has its work cut out challenging the new cloud-native kids
Storage17 Mar 2021 | 9
SK Hynix starts churning out 18GB LPDDR5 mobile memory chips – with ASUS first in line
And here's us thinking 640KB was enough for anyone
Storage08 Mar 2021 | 3
Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron
Good news for memory makers, not such great news for wider tech world
Storage04 Mar 2021 | 1
Blizzard brain: Snowflake doubles revenue. Market takes a look, goes slushy
High-growth hungry investors worrying you? Try hyperscalers!
Storage04 Mar 2021 | 6
The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO
One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec
Storage03 Mar 2021 | 76
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Well, Brexit meant Brexit
Storage26 Feb 2021 | 323
Microsoft unveils swappable SSDs for Surface Pro 7+ but 'strongly discourages' users from upping their capacity
Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you
Storage24 Feb 2021 | 55
Minister tells the House of Lords it'll be another 12 weeks before UK's deleted criminal records can be restored
99.5% were from before 2011 – so that's OK
Storage09 Feb 2021 | 39
Samsung seeks to have almost $1bn shaved off property taxes for planned Texas semiconductor fab
Company notes that it can always take its biz elsewhere as tech firms jostle to move to Lone Star state
Storage05 Feb 2021 | 12
Teradata's strong cloud growth holds Snowflake avalanche at bay – for now
'We've effectively configured our transition to a subscription model'
Storage05 Feb 2021 | 1
Funding frenzy from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce pumps ex-Hadoop wrangler Databricks' value to $28bn
Oof, that's gotta hurt for Cloudera, which is sitting at a paltry $4.6bn
Storage02 Feb 2021 | 2
Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB
NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware
Storage02 Feb 2021 | 108
Two years later, SK Hynix's £2.2bn EUV DRAM factory is ready to go
It started building M16 when 'overall semiconductor memory was amid downturn'
Storage01 Feb 2021 | 4
UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back
And the possible impact of erased DNA and fingerprint data on live police investigations? Nope, doesn't know that either
Storage21 Jan 2021 | 61
OVH rises to Europe data sovereignty challenge (and AWS) with tape-as-a-service
Storage cost saver combines IBM tape, Atempo software and OVH data centres
Storage20 Jan 2021 | 4
150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'
That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist
Storage18 Jan 2021 | 154
Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...
Storage15 Jan 2021 | 102
Vatican absolved of one financial sin after revelation of data discrepancies
Anti-money-laundering agency says it mis-interpreted info, leading to allegations of unexplained $1.8bn transfer to Australia
Storage15 Jan 2021 | 14
Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features
Firmware updates aren't enough to tackle worn-out memory
Storage14 Jan 2021 | 111
Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere
The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix
Storage14 Jan 2021 | 99
Semiconductor-flinger SK Hynix raises $1bn to green up its act
Toxic wastewater and resource hungry - wafer-fabbing's a mucky biz
Storage14 Jan 2021 | 6
100GB doesn't always cut it in these remote-working times so Microsoft has upped OneDrive file size upload limit to 250GB
Fewer files now needed before additional storage purchase is required
Storage13 Jan 2021 | 10
Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?
Interview Just after re:Invent, we talk with storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about the intricacies and future of the AWS storage platform
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2021 | 7
Hey Presto! Teradata admits its vision is dead by hooking QueryGrid analytics platform up to rival data warehouses
Updated Snowflake? We can query that
Storage17 Dec 2020 | 1
Alibaba Cloud sets its VMware partnership snowballing with hybrid storage appliances
Reveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em
Storage17 Dec 2020 |
The first point release for Linux 5.10 came out barely a day later because storage bugs broke RAID5* partitions
Updated We're not taking cues from Windows now, are we?
OSes15 Dec 2020 | 18
A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation
Analysis Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks
Storage15 Dec 2020 | 9
Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives
Processors are 'critical to future products', set to perform tasks for host systems
Storage08 Dec 2020 | 39
Snowflake Q3 losses almost double, stock market flinches, then reckons: Nah, it's fine
Undereaction a sign of investor 'confidence/insanity' in the Snowflake sales engine, says analyst
Storage03 Dec 2020 | 9
A little bit of TLC: How IBM squeezes 16,000 write-erase cycles from QLC flash
Healthy block work paves the way
Storage30 Nov 2020 | 10
Dell joins the 'fast object storage revolution'
Huge performance jump from disk
Storage20 Nov 2020 | 5
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
Expandability traded for performance
Storage19 Nov 2020 | 75
Worn-out NAND flash blamed for Tesla vehicle gremlins, such as rearview cam failures and silenced audio alerts
eMMC storage will soon enough die in 159,000 cars, automaker says
Storage17 Nov 2020 | 172
DRAM and NAND demand is up, but it's not enough to buoy SK Hynix profits as prices plummet amid supply glut
Thanks for the memory
Storage04 Nov 2020 |
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB
And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts
Storage04 Nov 2020 | 45
Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn
Deal sees $7bn paid now, $2bn in 2025 when Intel hands over key IP and FAB workers
Storage20 Oct 2020 | 11
Sony, Kioxia ask Uncle Sam for exemption to serve Huawei with components
Those most likely being image sensors and NAND flash storage for phones
Storage05 Oct 2020 | 2
Kioxia, the artist formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corporation, postpones IPO
Blames market volatility caused by pandemic and US controls over Huawei
Storage28 Sep 2020 | 4
Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts
Register Debate As the wisdom of the crowd decides
Databases18 Sep 2020 | 11
Storage consolidation: Simplifying infrastructure will pay dividends for your apps
Register Debate And let me tell you why in three words: Developers! Developers! Developers!
Databases16 Sep 2020 | 1
Stock market blizzard: Snowflake set for £33bn IPO as valuation bubble keeps on expanding
The price? 'ridiculous for a company that is still loss-making' - analyst
Storage16 Sep 2020 | 25
Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage
Register Debate You can bring a horse to water but you can't turn it into a fish
Databases16 Sep 2020 | 6
If you're modernizing your complex database stack and keep glancing at better storage, you're not alone
Reader survey We polled you IT pros out there on your info silo plans – and here are the results
Databases15 Sep 2020 | 1
Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits – and therefore everyone should be doing it
Register Debate Save yourself money, save yourself space
Databases14 Sep 2020 | 12
Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out
Register Debate Cost benefits are oversold – and may be completely wrong
Databases14 Sep 2020 | 17
Typical '80s IT: Good idea leads to additional duties, without extra training or pay, and a nuked payroll system
Who, Me? We know it is a bore, but check your backup and restore
Storage14 Sep 2020 | 101
