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
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
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