Storage Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware
Storage Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions
AI + ML Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure
Storage IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible
Storage Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions The core product is solid and priced fairly
Storage How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage
Virtualization Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now
Storage Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft
Storage Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say
Storage Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change
Off-Prem AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint
Storage RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot
Storage Rethinking storage for the AI era Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow
Personal Tech Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection
Systems One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM
Columnists Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass
Storage Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs
Storage How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation HPE designs storage with AI realities in mind
Storage Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper
Storage AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home
Storage Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs
Storage Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents
Storage Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections
Off-Prem Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive
Storage DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4
Storage Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management
Storage Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive January update is the gift that keeps on giving
Storage Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12
Storage Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you
Storage SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers
Storage Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Storage While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away
Storage SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner
Storage Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage
Virtualization AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
Storage UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
Storage Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg
Storage Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600
The Future of the Datacenter Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3 IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I
Storage The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers
Storage User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up
Storage Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?
Storage Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch
Storage Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first
Systems Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet
Storage NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting
Virtualization Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief
SC25 Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak
Storage InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that?
Storage The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B How to stay stable when the market shifts around you
Storage Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it How your data strategy can fuel innovation
Storage Conquer your storage challenges for generative AI success HPE's Alletra Storage MP X10000 addresses the problems of AI data management
OSes AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it
Storage The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative
Storage Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!
Storage OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month
Storage Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates Overprovisioning and poor performance can be things of the past for healthcare providers who see the bigger picture
Storage Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart But it reads at about the speed of punch cards
Software Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious
Storage Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025
AI + ML Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb
Storage Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up
Storage Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training
Storage Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims
Offbeat Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?
Storage And now for our annual ‘Tape is still not dead’ update 176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump
Storage HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
Software GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it
Public Sector UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever
Storage 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
On-Prem Don't let downtime lead to your downfall Modernize your data protection strategy with fast object storage to experience up to 6x faster restores and 20x lower TCO
The State of Storage Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
The State of Storage Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about Will your data still be readable in half a century?
On-Prem How compliance drives data resilience Data resilience is more than a regulatory requirement. It's also the path to competitive advantage
The State of Storage 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 Storage Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?
SaaS Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace $100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles
Storage Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL
Storage Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues
Storage 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
Storage AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
Storage Transform your storage ownership experience with guaranteed IT outcomes HPE expands storage guarantee program with new SLAs for cyber resilience, zero data loss, energy efficiency
Applications Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition
The State of Storage FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off
Virtualization Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in
Storage US biz stockpilers boost SK Hynix top line as memory market undergoes structural change 'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures
Storage Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot
Storage The smart way to tackle data storage challenges Why high-performance object storage is needed for modern data-intensive workloads
The State of Storage Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
