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Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains

Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province?

Science09 Dec 2024 | 48

Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage

Advertorial Don’t let I/O bottlenecks impede training your AI models

AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics

Re:Invent One of the most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells us

Storage03 Dec 2024 | 3

Availability, performance and capacity your applications and data will need

Advertorial Build an automated data workload super-highway with Flash Grid Architecture and Storage Partitions

Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators

Updated 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist

Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too

Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties

Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275

Signs a healthcare data storage platform needs a checkup

Why keeping up with the changes in healthcare technology requires a reliable and agile data platform

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QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu

Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support

Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22

De-risk storage platform design

Watch this on-demand webinar for tips on how to do it

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem

Storage18 Nov 2024 | 128

Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users

Consumer champion Which? not amused by fruit-based giant's alleged preference for its own cloud storage

Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 40

Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt

Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em

Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2

Jensen Huang asked SK hynix to give Nvidia 12-layer HBM4 chips earlier

12-layer HBM3E hardly off the manufacturing line

Storage05 Nov 2024 | 1

Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy'

Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback

Storage24 Oct 2024 | 45

With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply

How embarrassing for Samsung

AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |

Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems

Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups

Storage17 Oct 2024 | 7

Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive

Big emphasis on photos in mobile app

Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15

SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E

Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days

Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2

Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt

Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium

Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3

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Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle

'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice'

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Comment It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying

Opinion Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager

Microsoft coughs up yet more Windows 11 24H2 headaches

Users report the sound of silence from operating system update

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?

Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams

CANALYS FORUMS APAC Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence

Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend

On Call And there his troubles began …

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Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust

Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance

Storage27 Aug 2024 |

Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices

Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$

Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4

Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help

Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime

Storage06 Aug 2024 | 5

Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today

Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem

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

The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers

Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7

Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage

On Call Hello, hello … what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken

Storage05 Jul 2024 | 115

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?

Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73

SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand

It's already sold out of stock for this year and next

Storage01 Jul 2024 |

Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option

President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory

Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23

Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs

Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone

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

Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed

Interview Not a lot, says NetApp's Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption

Storage21 Jun 2024 | 20

In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer

Could be used to solve long term digital data storage problems too

Storage17 Jun 2024 | 8

Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come

Computex Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job

Storage06 Jun 2024 | 3

Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak

Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house

Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18

Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers

Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage

Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20

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

Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI

Storage21 May 2024 |

Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell

NEXT Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor

Storage21 May 2024 | 4

Techie invented bits of the box he was fixing, still botched the job

Who, me? This is why all-nighters are a bad idea

Storage20 May 2024 | 73

Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan

Over-50s to get early retirement offer

Storage17 May 2024 | 13

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see

SaaS14 May 2024 | 2

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'

So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market

Storage08 May 2024 | 23

SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025

Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs

Storage02 May 2024 | 1

Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host

Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs

Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day

Storage01 May 2024 | 66

Software support chap survived breaking his customer

Who, Me? Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around

Software29 Apr 2024 | 89

Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026

Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another...

Storage26 Apr 2024 | 1

SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom

Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech

Storage25 Apr 2024 |

Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand

Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts

Storage23 Apr 2024 | 4

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road

Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan

Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13

Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers

Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I

Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2

Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers

Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain

Storage16 Apr 2024 | 5

Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications

If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue

Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1

Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

On Call And be paid danger money while he did it

Storage12 Apr 2024 | 134

AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury

Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful'

Storage11 Apr 2024 | 24

AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3

No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle

Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1

D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives

Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users

Storage09 Apr 2024 | 23

Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure

But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says

Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5

Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage

Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard

Storage02 Apr 2024 | 7

SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana

Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly

Storage26 Mar 2024 | 2

Micron bounces back as AI drives up memory prices

'Our HBM is sold out for calendar 2024,' trills CEO

Storage21 Mar 2024 | 1

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus

Storage18 Mar 2024 | 95

Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard

Preview's promise ends in digital dust

Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22

Chinese chip slinger found not guilty of stealing memory secrets from Micron

Fujian Jinhua escapes prosecution tho remains on the US sanctions list

Storage28 Feb 2024 | 1

HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked

CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier

On-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 3

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time

Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72

Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset

Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library

Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38

Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier

GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter

Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 45

Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade

Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM

Storage20 Feb 2024 | 60

Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023

Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to

Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11

You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear

Storage07 Feb 2024 | 122

Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips

Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal

Storage06 Feb 2024 |

China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory

Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions

Storage01 Feb 2024 | 4

Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite

Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says

Storage01 Feb 2024 | 7

Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year

Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory

Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3

Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk

Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies

Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63

One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic

Who, Me? Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity

Storage29 Jan 2024 | 73

University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB

Updated Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment

Storage19 Jan 2024 | 77

NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage

Updated Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way

Storage17 Jan 2024 | 2

Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0

Essential tool for PC troubleshooting, even if you never run anything but Windows

Storage11 Jan 2024 | 19

AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'

re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer

Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6

Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware

Who, Me? Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there – what a pity if something …happened to it

Storage11 Dec 2023 | 107

Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help

Column Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible – but what use is it if we can't find it?

Storage06 Dec 2023 | 72

Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully

who, me? Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up

Storage04 Dec 2023 | 57

Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region

Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems

Storage30 Nov 2023 | 26

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files

Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished

Storage27 Nov 2023 | 100

Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams

Mega startup serves slice of GenAI with data engineering main as it tries to upstage Microsoft’s Fabric showpiece

Storage16 Nov 2023 |

Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data

Sneakernet for the stars?

Storage16 Nov 2023 | 35

Backblaze starts tracking hot drives as world preps for rising global temperatures

Quarterly stats to show when units exceed manufacturer max temp

Storage14 Nov 2023 | 4

YMTC accuses Micron of 'freeriding' on its 3D NAND patents

Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China

Storage13 Nov 2023 | 2

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules

Storage09 Nov 2023 | 111

Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders

As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption

Storage02 Nov 2023 | 2

Western Digital execs vote to split biz in two: HDD and flash

Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management

Storage30 Oct 2023 | 10

SK hynix puts the boot into Kioxia-Western Digital merger

'The company is not agreeing to the deal at this time'

Storage26 Oct 2023 |

That script I wrote three years ago is now doing what? How many times?

Who, Me? Whipping up a RAID repair nearly produced data doom

Storage23 Oct 2023 | 76

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