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Storage23 Jul 2025 | 46
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CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite
World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next
On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 7
HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast
Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
Storage15 Jul 2025 | 10
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 6
UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives
Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever
Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 41
WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1
SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order
Storage24 Jun 2025 | 19
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Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising
Networks13 Jun 2025 | 6
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 32
Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control
Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 47
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
Feature The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 27
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 7
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On-Prem02 Jun 2025 | 105
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage
Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL
Storage30 May 2025 | 21
Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users
Updated Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues
Storage29 May 2025 | 7
Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme
Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems
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Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes
Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher
On-Prem23 May 2025 | 29
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OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
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Storage08 Apr 2025 | 225
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Storage07 Mar 2025 | 6
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Storage28 Feb 2025 | 182
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Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
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Storage21 Feb 2025 | 130
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Storage19 Feb 2025 | 41
NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cut
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Storage17 Feb 2025 | 14
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Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
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Storage14 Feb 2025 | 118
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits
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Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
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Disaster Recovery Week12 Feb 2025 | 16
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Storage07 Feb 2025 | 196
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CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33
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Storage29 Jan 2025 | 104
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Storage23 Jan 2025 | 38
Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today
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SaaS21 Jan 2025 | 11
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
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Databases20 Jan 2025 |
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Storage17 Jan 2025 | 86
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days
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Research13 Jan 2025 | 5
The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match
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Storage07 Jan 2025 | 36
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Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
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Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics
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Storage03 Dec 2024 | 3
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators
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Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
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Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China
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Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275
QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu
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Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22
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Storage18 Nov 2024 | 124
Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users
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Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 40
Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt
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Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2
Jensen Huang asked SK hynix to give Nvidia 12-layer HBM4 chips earlier
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Storage05 Nov 2024 | 1
Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy'
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Storage24 Oct 2024 | 43
With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply
How embarrassing for Samsung
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |
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Storage17 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive
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Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E
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Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt
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Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3
Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust
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Storage27 Aug 2024 |
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices
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Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help
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Storage06 Aug 2024 | 5
Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today
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Storage29 Jul 2024 | 48
You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw – and now it's going to hurt some more
LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware
Patches11 Jul 2024 | 4
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch
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Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage
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Storage05 Jul 2024 | 115
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks
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Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand
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Storage01 Jul 2024 |
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option
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Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs
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Storage26 Jun 2024 | 95
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K
Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
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Storage21 Jun 2024 | 20
In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer
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Storage17 Jun 2024 | 8
Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come
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Storage06 Jun 2024 | 3
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak
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Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers
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Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers
Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue
Storage30 May 2024 |
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year
Blame AI. No, seriously
Storage27 May 2024 | 101
Micron told to pay $445M in memory patent infringement case
Case brought by Netlist involved DRAM modules in computer systems
Storage24 May 2024 | 8
Hunger for more HBM capacity could cause shortage DRAM-a
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Storage21 May 2024 |
Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell
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Storage21 May 2024 | 4
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