The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 32
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.
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches
Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 7
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Feature Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 67
Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Interview And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack
The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 5
Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 3
Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about
The State of Storage Will your data still be readable in half a century?
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 80
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
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 47
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
Feature The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 27
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off
The State of Storage12 May 2025 | 15
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
The State of Storage09 May 2025 | 157
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit
The State of Storage29 Apr 2025 | 16
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
The State of Storage04 Apr 2025 | 4
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