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
Why the future of data storage is tape Webinar Watch this webinar to learn how tape solutions can help businesses overcome the challenges of runaway data growth Webinar
Micron bounces back as AI drives up memory prices 'Our HBM is sold out for calendar 2024,' trills CEO Storage21 Mar 2024 | 1
Meeting the challenge of the Zettabyte age Webinar The business advantage of tape solutions for data storage Webinar
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Storage18 Mar 2024 | 94
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 | 2
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
Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38
Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 45
Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Storage20 Feb 2024 | 60
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023 Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear Storage07 Feb 2024 | 121
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions Storage01 Feb 2024 | 4
Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says Storage01 Feb 2024 | 7
Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic Who, Me? Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity Storage29 Jan 2024 | 73
Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke Updated Python 2 has been dead for four years
Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options
Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws Software slackers urged to up their game
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin'
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who Pics Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs
US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force?
Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals, but DEF CON hackers have a plan Interview ARPA-H joins the challenge, adds $20M to cash rewards
Observability is key in the AI era Observability is more critical than ever at a time when organizations are embracing generative AI and other AI technologies Commissioned
University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB Updated Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment Storage19 Jan 2024 | 77
NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage Updated Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way Storage17 Jan 2024 | 2
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0 Essential tool for PC troubleshooting, even if you never run anything but Windows Storage11 Jan 2024 | 19
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 | 83
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
Samsung teases upcoming DRAM and NAND goodies at Tech Day event Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too Storage06 Oct 2022 |
NAND flash prices could drop up to 20% in Q4 TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies Storage27 Sep 2022 |
Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller? Storage20 Sep 2022 | 28
'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Storage20 Sep 2022 | 136
Bad UI killed the radio star Who, Me? Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data Storage19 Sep 2022 | 44
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter Storage16 Sep 2022 | 125
Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time Storage13 Sep 2022 | 56
Computational storage specs hit v1.0 after 4 years of work Emerging field now has baseline definitions for vendors to work with Storage07 Sep 2022 | 7
Inflation worries push PC and mobile DRAM demand down, with pricing to follow Samsung, SK hynix, Micron are in for some pain, claims analyst, plus signs point to stockpiled customer inventory Storage16 Aug 2022 |
The sins of OneDrive as Microsoft's cloud storage service turns 15 Opinion SkyDrive? Placeholders? Outages? Yes, it's all gone swimmingly Storage10 Aug 2022 | 45
Flash memory vendors unveil PCIe 5.0 SSDs, latest spec for CXL interconnect tech Flash Memory Summit Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts Storage05 Aug 2022 | 3
Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12
CXL absorbs OpenCAPI on the road to interconnect dominance It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z? Storage02 Aug 2022 |
Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature Storage02 Aug 2022 | 19
US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius Storage01 Aug 2022 | 16
SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week Storage01 Aug 2022 | 1