HPE makes its “unified storage” claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity Storage08 Sep 2026 |
DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3 storage PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now Storage07 Sep 2026 | 10
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving On-prem Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE Networks03 Sep 2026 | 40
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 STORAGE Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas Systems02 Sep 2026 | 13
Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 storage LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling Storage02 Sep 2026 | 29
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND STORAGE Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills Storage26 Aug 2026 | 3
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice storage Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records Systems06 Aug 2026 | 7
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months systems Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady Systems06 Aug 2026 | 4
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs STORAGE Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says Storage04 Aug 2026 | 4
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech STORAGE High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows Storage30 Jul 2026 | 5
MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish STORAGE AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off Storage29 Jul 2026 | 2
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning STORAGE Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028 Storage29 Jul 2026 | 4
Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package Storage Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO Storage29 Jul 2026 | 7
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch Storage With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived Storage28 Jul 2026 | 48
AI is storage's biggest opportunity – and biggest threat AI and ML Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data Storage28 Jul 2026 | 1
From individual achievement to partner impact PARTNER CONTENT: Databricks survey data suggests certified professionals lift partner delivery capacity, customer credibility, and AI readiness well beyond the individuals who earn the credential Storage24 Jul 2026 |
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them software Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets Software23 Jul 2026 | 4
IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value on-prem CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' Storage14 Jul 2026 | 8
Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat Security Vendor insists there's no evidence of unauthorized access, but it's asking customers to take one of the most drastic precautions available Security13 Jul 2026 | 5
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design storage Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some) Storage08 Jul 2026 | 9
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification offbeat Wheels turning on the road and in government
Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice PERSONAL TECh Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly
Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability
Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook Security Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability
Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction' public sector MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise
Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal software Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway
Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys SECURITY Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed
UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks SECURITY Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds
OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on COLUMNISTS 'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff Security NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago
AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage SPONSORED FEATURE: As AI evolves from novelty to autonomy, the real bottleneck isn't processing power—it's where to put all that data. Storage08 Jul 2026 |
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery PARTNER CONTENT: The gap between having a backup and actually recovering from a disaster is wider than most IT teams realize Storage01 Jul 2026 |
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess Storage The alternative was paying up and moving back in with his parents Storage29 Jun 2026 | 109
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years systems Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits Systems25 Jun 2026 | 74
Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU PARTNER CONTENT GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters. Storage24 Jun 2026 |
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug Software And he got away with it too! Software08 Jun 2026 | 60
Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite Storage Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing Storage02 Jun 2026 | 15
Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet Networks Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation Storage27 May 2026 | 4
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything Storage Letting a 21-year-old write critical code without supervision is not smart Storage18 May 2026 | 61
Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate Storage Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware Storage07 May 2026 | 4
Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions Storage23 Apr 2026 |
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear Systems23 Apr 2026 | 4
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment On-Prem22 Apr 2026 | 7
Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure AI + ML PARTNER CONTENT: Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure Software22 Apr 2026 |
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory Networks17 Apr 2026 | 11
Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US Personal Tech14 Apr 2026 | 25
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it Who, Me? Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible Storage13 Apr 2026 | 50
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions Storage The core product is solid and priced fairly Storage09 Apr 2026 | 16
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft Storage24 Mar 2026 | 14
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC Storage Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say Storage18 Mar 2026 |
Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable Personal Tech18 Mar 2026 | 25
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 Storage17 Mar 2026 | 35
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ Off-Prem Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint Off-Prem16 Mar 2026 | 8
RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Storage13 Mar 2026 | 55
Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure Personal Tech10 Mar 2026 | 38
Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks Offbeat10 Mar 2026 | 50
Rethinking storage for the AI era Storage SPONSORED POST Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow Storage06 Mar 2026 |
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 Systems04 Mar 2026 | 6
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids Databases02 Mar 2026 | 1
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here Opinion Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass Columnists02 Mar 2026 | 28
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Personal Tech26 Feb 2026 | 119
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites On-Prem24 Feb 2026 | 36
Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame Storage Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs Storage20 Feb 2026 | 66
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 Storage19 Feb 2026 | 55
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 Storage17 Feb 2026 | 7
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet Personal Tech16 Feb 2026 | 29
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 Storage13 Feb 2026 | 19
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock Personal Tech12 Feb 2026 | 23
Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents Storage05 Feb 2026 | 59
Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 20
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 Storage03 Feb 2026 | 7
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 Storage02 Feb 2026 | 20
How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 4
Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management Storage26 Jan 2026 | 2
Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive January update is the gift that keeps on giving Storage21 Jan 2026 | 44
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 Storage16 Jan 2026 | 24
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise When margins are this tight, mergers might follow Personal Tech15 Jan 2026 | 9
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 Storage14 Jan 2026 | 11
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 Storage13 Jan 2026 | 3
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals Storage12 Jan 2026 | 124
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 Storage08 Jan 2026 | 10
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner Storage07 Jan 2026 | 15
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again Storage Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Storage23 Dec 2025 | 109
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 Storage20 Dec 2025 | 77
Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood AI-nflation Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery Personal Tech16 Dec 2025 | 27
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 Storage14 Dec 2025 | 102
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't On Call Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up Storage12 Dec 2025 | 252
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security Applications05 Dec 2025 | 111
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? Storage03 Dec 2025 | 81
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 Storage01 Dec 2025 | 74
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty Updated OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 90
Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first Storage21 Nov 2025 | 111
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too Virtualization21 Nov 2025 | 9
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 Storage18 Nov 2025 | 13
Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is America's great hope Supercomputing Month11 Nov 2025 | 22
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty! Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 47
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI Databases05 Nov 2025 |
The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future Feature The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative Storage16 Oct 2025 | 8
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! Storage13 Oct 2025 | 101
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 | 7
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 Storage02 Oct 2025 | 4
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year Personal Tech01 Oct 2025 | 22
Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week PaaS + IaaS23 Sep 2025 | 19
Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions Doing a simple system reset may not be enough to save you from fines and lawsuits Security14 Sep 2025 | 64
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart But it reads at about the speed of punch cards Storage12 Sep 2025 | 6
Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable Analysis Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Systems10 Sep 2025 | 2
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK Exclusive Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025 Storage05 Sep 2025 | 11
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers On Call Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk Networks05 Sep 2025 | 122
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 AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 6
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up Storage03 Sep 2025 | 44