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
HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust Made your old computer faster but too quiet? Here's a fun fix Offbeat30 Sep 2022 | 41
NAND flash prices could drop up to 20% in Q4 TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies Storage27 Sep 2022 |
'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
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
Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 82
Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant If it ever gets built, that is Systems26 Aug 2022 | 35
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
Cloudy Chinese word processor vendor denies deleting defiant docs But Kingsoft has admitted to blocking access to some material and Chinese creative types are worried Software12 Jul 2022 | 10
PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps Although PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead Networks22 Jun 2022 | 10
Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market Embedded World Ideal for corporate fleet dash cameras, smart home security, police bodycams, VSaaS and more, says chip giant Storage21 Jun 2022 | 54
India lets Mastercard issue new cards again Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes Storage17 Jun 2022 | 4
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion 'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses Messrs Elliott strike again Storage08 Jun 2022 | 9
AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4
Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs Systems01 Jun 2022 | 10
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots' Networks21 May 2022 | 109
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 |
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
VMware walks back ban on booting vSphere from SD cards or thumb drives Updated But in future won't certify servers that allow booting from removable media Virtualization29 Apr 2022 | 14
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer SaaS08 Apr 2022 | 24
If you want to connect GPUs direct to SSDs for a speed boost, this could be it Go away, CPU, you're not needed here ... mostly AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 8
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
Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call On-Prem25 Feb 2022 | 4
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
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
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 decides Twoshiba's the best strategy, cans plan to create Threeshiba crowd Strategy to make printer co. its flagbearer dropped, hands that job to infrastructure mega corp On-Prem08 Feb 2022 | 2
Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag Data at rest should remain at rest HPC31 Jan 2022 | 3
Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom Security27 Jan 2022 | 19
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
Nvidia says its SmartNICs sizzled to world record storage schlepping status But did so operating as NICs – the real fun starts in mid-2022 when VMware’s hypervisor for SmartNICs should land Networks22 Dec 2021 | 9
Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China Security16 Dec 2021 | 4
Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2021 | 4
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
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
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
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
Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped On-Prem29 Jun 2021 |
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
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
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed Updated Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files Security02 Apr 2021 | 25
Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco On-Prem02 Apr 2021 |
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
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
Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix Storage14 Jan 2021 | 99
Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough Exciting news for green fuel, but quality control, financing will be a challenge Science07 Jan 2021 | 90
Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware? Interview Just after re:Invent, we talk with storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about the intricacies and future of the AWS storage platform PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2021 | 7
Aruba warns of storage destruction flaw that bricks some switches If you own the model 6300 and 6400, upgrade now to ‘prolong life’ Networks09 Nov 2020 | 7
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts Storage04 Nov 2020 | 45
Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC Including private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet On-Prem30 Sep 2020 | 1
Crash, bang, wallop: External storage systems still sliding in Europe as customers' budgets stay frozen Supply chain woes also fingered after second quarter of pain in Europe Storage11 Sep 2020 |
South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle OpenExpress does away with intellectual property licensing burdens Storage09 Sep 2020 | 2
Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2 Revenue dips regardless as big enterprise players struggle during lockdown On-Prem09 Sep 2020 |
Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs Developers told to hurry up and get features stable as support for other features extends to help slow upgraders Software28 Aug 2020 | 5
NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers Q1 beat analysts' expectations Storage27 Aug 2020 | 3
NetApp trims workforce by about six per cent, SolidFire seemingly not an eternal flame Exclusive Can’t say much until its results are released tomorrow... conveniently Storage26 Aug 2020 | 8
Mysterious metadata monster swamped Google’s blobs and crashed its cloud Parts of the GCloud are more robust and survived, but the fix is not yet in for others SaaS25 Aug 2020 | 6