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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 | 39
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
AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery
How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection
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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
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Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt
Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium
Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3
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
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Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government
Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'
Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him
Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest
Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal'
'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart server utility for 10 years
Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, are 'easily exploitable'
Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed
OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research
Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator
Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa
Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11
Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade?
Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86's PC dominance
Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in
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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
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments
A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal
Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze
Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare
Storage26 Sep 2023 | 17
Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream
Smaller footprint and detachable
Storage26 Sep 2023 | 6
Snowflake's Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud
Opinion If customers can slash bills by 'optimizing,' what does that mean for revenue?
Storage05 Sep 2023 | 8
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation
On Call Engineer trumped angry user by pointing to the rulebook
Storage01 Sep 2023 | 206
Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization'
Everybody chill, we're still in the cart
Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users
One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this
Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
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