Micron dangles predictable memory price agreements in front of vendors The idea? To get investors muttering: DRAM, those gross margins are stable... Storage13 May 2022 | 4
Panzura scores $80 million funding to grow storage footprint Startup aims to add more than 150 workers by the end of 2022 Storage12 May 2022 |
Enterprise-strength FreeBSD-based TrueNAS releases v13.0 Plus: iXsystems' NAS OS has a new Linux-based sibling called SCALE Storage11 May 2022 | 20
Cisco warns of premature DIMM failures Check 16, 32, and 64GB DIMMs made in the middle to end of 2020, blames manufacturing errors Storage09 May 2022 | 12
Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia Calls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank Storage06 May 2022 |
Samsung unveils hardened SD card that can last 16 years if you treat it right And apply an asterisk or two Storage04 May 2022 | 49
Elliott Management to WDC board: Spin out or sell flash biz Updated HDD and NAND memory maker has 'underperformed by any objective measure' Storage03 May 2022 | 9
Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes On Call Doing the floppy fandango Storage22 Apr 2022 | 204
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection Interview Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says Storage12 Apr 2022 | 14
Google Cloud previews new BigLake data lakehouse service Hoarding a bunch of data that 'may prove useful' someday? Data-wrangling product is aimed at you Storage06 Apr 2022 | 1
Bain Capital plots to buy Toshiba with help from largest shareholder Updated The deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids Storage01 Apr 2022 | 7
Linux kernel patch from Google speeds up server shutdowns First world problems: Too many NVMe drives, not enough seconds to spare Storage29 Mar 2022 | 36
Chip designers made bank in 2021 amid global shortage Absolutely Fabless: A good year for those who don't make the things themselves Storage24 Mar 2022 | 3
OpenZFS 2.1.3 bugfix brings compatibility with Linux 5.16 It's not just a filesystem, it's an 'open-source storage platform' Storage12 Mar 2022 | 30
Microsoft squashes OneDrive bug that caused files to linger after PC wipe Never can say goodbye to those documents? Now you can Storage09 Mar 2022 | 4
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs But warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions Storage04 Mar 2022 | 18
Snowflake rolls back growth estimates, wipes 30% off value Plus $800m Streamlit acquisition – just don't expect a revenue contribution any time soon Storage03 Mar 2022 | 4
Microsoft goes native with OneDrive on Apple Silicon Hopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update Storage02 Mar 2022 | 5
PC OEMs are sitting on 10 weeks-plus of DRAM, says Trendforce Pandemic-induced supply chain imbalance did it Storage18 Feb 2022 | 11
Nutanix reshuffles product portfolio into bigger bundles Plan calls for this to end in tiers Storage15 Feb 2022 | 2
The end of free Google storage for education Opinion Bye, bye, free American bytes. I took the GDrive to be levied as .EDU sighs Storage14 Feb 2022 | 44
Microsoft tempts G Suite customers with 60% discount Don't fancy paying for a Google sub after cutoff date? Pay Microsoft instead Storage11 Feb 2022 | 13
RAID expansion comes to OpenZFS at last Don't get too excited, filesystem fans – there are limits Storage11 Feb 2022 | 52
Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure? Storage10 Feb 2022 | 73
'At least' 6.5 exabytes lost after contamination hits Kioxia/WD 3D NAND fabs Operations at Yokkaichi and Kitakami affected Storage10 Feb 2022 | 21
CommVault merges Asian region into EMEA – four months after SaaS launch Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers Storage10 Feb 2022 | 3
Toshiba reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024 I want to be your SledgeMAMR Storage09 Feb 2022 | 72
Tiny Uber offshoot tries to do for data lakes what Snowflake did for data warehousing Onehouse's Apache Hudi managed service makes sense but has a long way to go, analysts say Storage08 Feb 2022 | 2
Back up for a minute – Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies Failure can be factored in when you're doing your sums, says vendor Storage01 Feb 2022 | 14
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