Blistering bandwidth: JEDEC pushes out HBM3 memory specs All that and improved energy efficiency Storage28 Jan 2022 | 5
Thanks for the memory: Samsung says DRAM, NAND profits up Q-on-Q, sales down as global supply chain bites Expects more stability but warns of potential fab lockdowns on road ahead Storage27 Jan 2022 |
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement If you're unable to share documents, this may be why Storage25 Jan 2022 | 83
Can you compose memory across a HPC cluster? Yes. Yes you can GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers' Storage20 Jan 2022 | 2
Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled Get ready for a new 'experience'... Storage14 Jan 2022 | 35
2021 in storage: We waited for a flash price revolution that never came. But about creativity? We can't complain Analysis DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances Storage30 Dec 2021 | 17
Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance Updated Microsoft aware of the issue months ago, but not fixed yet Storage08 Dec 2021 | 60
Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled On Call Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3 Storage26 Nov 2021 | 158
Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv Storage24 Nov 2021 | 5
Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again Storage17 Nov 2021 | 48
Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon Storage16 Nov 2021 |
Remember SoftRAM 95? Compression app claimed to double memory in Windows but actually did nothing at all Microsoft's Raymond Chen was tasked with digging into the issue Storage15 Nov 2021 | 107
New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022 It'll be 10 and 11 only if you want that personal file synchronisation action Storage08 Nov 2021 | 41
Microsoft finally remembers Windows on Arm is a thing, reveals native OneDrive client Ignite In preview. For Insiders. By end of 2021. Two full years after Surface Pro X Storage03 Nov 2021 |
Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS Hands up who wants to do that info migration Storage26 Oct 2021 | 79
Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Storage20 Oct 2021 | 2
DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Storage20 Oct 2021 | 1
Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media On Call Your PC is not a fridge Storage08 Oct 2021 | 165
VMware to kill SD cards and USB drives as vSphere boot options Storage capacity of your hosts could take a hit Storage04 Oct 2021 | 39
Memory maker Micron offers hope for PC parts supply returning 'in the coming months' Oh, and boasts over record-breaking return from IoT segment, too Storage29 Sep 2021 |
Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability Updated Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut Storage28 Sep 2021 | 4
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 Storage21 Sep 2021 |
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 Storage17 Sep 2021 | 5
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 Storage15 Sep 2021 | 9
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 Storage09 Sep 2021 | 35
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 Storage08 Sep 2021 | 17
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 Storage03 Sep 2021 | 3
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 Storage01 Sep 2021 | 37
Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict Storage28 Aug 2021 | 49
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 Storage27 Aug 2021 | 52
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 Storage24 Aug 2021 | 2
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 Storage19 Aug 2021 | 24
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 Storage05 Aug 2021 |
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 Storage05 Aug 2021 | 69
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 Storage30 Jul 2021 | 4
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 Storage29 Jul 2021 |
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 Storage27 Jul 2021 | 11
Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner Updated Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground Storage20 Jul 2021 | 3
India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers Alleges it blew a deadline to secure data – by almost three years Storage15 Jul 2021 | 21
HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources Storage09 Jul 2021 |
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 Storage09 Jul 2021 | 15
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 Storage01 Jul 2021 | 3
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 Storage28 Jun 2021 | 2
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 Storage10 Jun 2021 |
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant Storage09 Jun 2021 | 5
Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too Snowflake Summit Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow Storage08 Jun 2021 | 1
Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks Storage08 Jun 2021 | 49
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 Storage04 Jun 2021 | 13
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 Storage04 Jun 2021 | 43
Leaving Spark behind, Databricks enters new territory as it eyes 2021 IPO Will its vision for unified analytics fly? Storage01 Jun 2021 | 2
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 Storage26 May 2021 | 33
We’ve found them! Govt reinstates records previously missing from the Police National Computer November scripting error havoc finally fixed Storage25 May 2021 | 21
10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares Storage24 May 2021 | 7
Big red buttons and very bad language: A primer for life in the IT world Who, Me? Guess what I learned at school today, Mummy! Storage24 May 2021 | 114
Europe gives SK Hynix the nod to gobble up Intel's NAND flash and solid-state drive biz I have you now, Samsung Storage22 May 2021 | 4
Cisco discloses self-sabotaging SSD bug that causes rolling outages for some Firepower appliances Boxes stop working, admins may be locked out after 28,224 hours – and then every 1,008 hours after that Storage20 May 2021 | 7
US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei Updated The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD Storage12 May 2021 | 8
Fibre Channel is still around. And now it's end-to-end at a sizzling-ish 64Gbit/s Broadcom unveils an HBA to complete the set of seventh-gen kit Storage12 May 2021 | 6
HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world. Storage04 May 2021 | 3
Oh no it isn't... Oh yes it is... Microsoft confirms OneDrive lives on under Windows 7 Panto season comes early in Redmond as TLS tweaks revive software Storage29 Apr 2021 | 7