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THE STATE OF STORAGE

Dive into a week exploring the latest in IT storage with The Register – from hard drives to cloud. Understand the challenges and opportunities as we unravel the narrative of storage efficiency, security, and innovation at the enterprise level.

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The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives

Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts

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Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches

Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech

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Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage

Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder

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Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about

And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack

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Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms

Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success

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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?

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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

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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?

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FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off

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37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson

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Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle

Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit

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30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?

The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays

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Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents

It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025

Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO

Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land

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Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO

Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land

Someone despairing at their servers not working in a datacenter

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Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers