Search Storage, December 8,2025
A Dozen Data Storage Acronyms You Should Know
There are many acronyms people use in the data storage space. The following are 12 of the more commonly appearing acronyms.
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Search Storage, December 8,2025
Top SAN Products Powering Enterprise ITStrategy
Selecting the right SAN products is vital to enabling a modern data strategy that drives operational efficiency and enterprise ROI.
more → information age, December 8,2025
Flash Storage Prices Are Surging - Why Auto-Tiering Is Now Essential
This article explores what you should do now that flash storage is becoming unsustainable for organisations
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Blocks & Files, Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Gartner's Storage Sermon For 2026 - 2029
Enterprise storage planners and buyers must adopt cyber-storage, autonomous storage and manage by SLA outcomes
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techradar, Monday, December 1st, 2025
Seagate's Latest Breakthrough Ushers In The Age Of 55TB Or Even 69TB Hard Drives - And It Isn't Stopping There
Larger platters of 7TB to 15TB are projected beyond 2031
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, November 28th, 2025
Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats Rethinking Failure
Every quarter, Drive Stats gives us the numbers. This quarter, it gave us a crisis of meaning. What does it really mean for a hard drive to fail? Is it the moment the lights go out, or the moment we decide they have? Philosophers might call that an ontological gray area. We just call it Q3.
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HPCwire, Friday, November 28th, 2025
The Cost Of Doing Nothing: Why Unstructured Data Is Draining IT Budgets
Unstructured data, including everything from videos, images and emails to documents, sensor data and AI outputs, already represents up to 90% of enterprise information.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Parallel File Systems Explained: Metadata, Striping, And Throughput
Parallel file systems can be confusing. They are needed in high-performance computing (HPC) to provide sufficiently high aggregate I/O bandwidth and low-latency access to shared data for thousands or tens of thousands of compute nodes (or millions of cores) working on the same problem simultaneously.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
7 Ways Hybrid Cloud Storage Is Reshaping San Strategy
As hybrid cloud adoption accelerates, SAN management is evolving. Examine seven ways modernization, security and cost priorities are shifting for enterprise leaders.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
5 Signs Your Storage Infrastructure Is Due For An Upgrade
Outdated storage risks missed business opportunities and high costs. These five warning signs reveal when it's time to upgrade your organization's NAS or SAN systems.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Top San Products Powering Enterprise It Strategy
Selecting the right SAN products is vital to enabling a modern data strategy that drives operational efficiency and enterprise ROI.
more → Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Why Don't Storage Systems Last 12 Years?
Storage systems once followed a predictable refresh pattern: every three-to-four years for performance and every four-to-five years for capacity. That pattern still dominates today, even though the underlying technology has advanced far beyond what most organizations need.
more → Help Net Security, Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
What The Latest Data Reveals About Hard Drive Reliability
What really counts as a hard drive failure? That's the question at the center of Backblaze's Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers.
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StorageReview, Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats: Failure Rates Climb, Outliers Emerge, And AI Workloads Reshape Infrastructure
Backblaze has published its Q3 2025 Drive Stats and Network Stats reports, offering another data-rich look at the health and performance of its massive cloud storage infrastructure.
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Search Storage, Monday, November 10th, 2025
NVMe speeds vs. SATA and SAS: Which is fastest?
The NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces, plus recent specifications.
more → ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
HDD Metrics And Why Mean Time To Failure Is Not Terribly Useful
In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about hard drive metrics, why MTTF is less useful than annualised failure rate, and why big systems need to use enterprise drives
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Search Storage, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
NVMe Over TCP Details And Features You Need To Know
NVMe/TCP is here. The specification lays out how to deliver data across an existing TCP network, making implementation simple and cost-efficient.
more → Storage Swiss, Saturday, October 25th, 2025
All Immutable Storage Does Not Equal Ransomware Protection
Ransomware continues to be one of IT's biggest challenges, driving organizations to look for better ways to protect their data and accelerate recovery. One of the most common and effective countermeasures is immutable storage - the ability to lock data so it cannot be changed, deleted, or encrypted by an attacker.
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ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Podcast: SSD For High Performance, But HDD Suits 'Warm' Workloads
We talk to Axel Stoermann of drive maker Kioxia about the efficiencies and performance that flash storage can bring, but why hard disk drives are still a key choice in some use cases
more → Blocks & Files, Monday, October 20th, 2025
The End Of The Disk Drive Bathtub Curve
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the 'bathtub curve' effect may be imaginary.
more → Analytics Insight, Saturday, October 18th, 2025
What Is The Best HDD Brand In 2025: Reliability, Speed & Storage
From Western Digital to Samsung: Top Hard Drive Brands in 2025 for Performance and Durability
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HPC Wire, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Future Of Storage: HPC And AI Storage By The Numbers
In the first story of our 'Future of AI and HPC Storage' series, we looked at the overall market for HPC and AI storage and some of the big challenges that organizations are facing and trends shaping the market.
more → Search Storage, Monday, October 6th, 2025
High-Capacity SSDs Positioned To Tackle AI Onslaught
More AI means more data, and organizations need a way to accommodate it all. For that, flash vendors are looking to high-capacity SSDs as a critical layer in the storage hierarchy.
more → Search Storage, Friday, September 26th, 2025
5 Tips For Improving Data Storage Efficiency
Update on-premises infrastructure, refine DLM strategies, employ data reduction techniques and continuously monitor storage systems to improve storage efficiency.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Glossary Of 25 Top Data Storage Terms You Should Know
This collection of data storage terms covers newer technologies, such as blockchain storage, and legacy tech, including network-attached storage and tape drives.
more → Search Storage, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
AI Dominates 2025 Future Of Memory And Storage Conference
Techs discussed at the Future of Memory and Storage event included high-capacity and high-performance SSDs, all against the backdrop of AI. Explore expert analysis from the show.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, September 18,2025
New Enterprise Storage Platforms Magic Quadrant From Gartner For 2025
A few weeks ago Gartner published a new report about storage and this one is named Enterprise Storage Platforms as the analyst firm as to go beyond primary storage as it didn't reflect completely the market reality.
more → Blocks & Files, September 16,2025
Storage Deduplication Is A Commodity - Infrastructure-Wide Makes It Strategic
We have enough silo-based problems. Deduplication shouldn't be another.
more → ComputerWeekly.com, Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Storage Is Key To AI Projects That Succeed
Artificial intelligence is a key project for enterprise IT currently, but the difference between success and failure rests on having the right infrastructure, especially in data storage
more → Search Storage, Friday, September 5th, 2025
Is Storage The Weak Link In Your Cyber-Resilience Strategy?
While challenges exist in applying cyber resilience to storage platforms, vendors are starting to make it easier for organizations to add that needed layer of protection.
more → StorageNewsletter, Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Ozone V.2.0.0
First object store to support operational databases, with major usability and compatibility enhancements
more → linuxiac, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
What to Expect From TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source Storage
TrueNAS 25.10 'Goldeye' open-source NAS is on the way, bringing Terabit networking, cloud-driven setup, and new virtualization features.
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Search Data Backup, Monday, August 25th, 2025
Enterprise Data Governance: Frameworks And Best Practices
Data backup and recovery depend on a solid governance framework that includes procedures for data management, stewardship, quality monitoring, protection, security and compliance.
more → RTInsights, Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
The Silent Data Crisis: Why Unstructured Data Is Costing Every Industry More Than They Think
Across industries, unstructured data management is no longer just a cost-saving tactic but a strategic enabler.
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Storage And Data Teams Need To Talk
Interview. Blocks and Files is a storage-focussed outlet that has progressed, with the industry, into data access, management and AI pipeline feeding.
more → GigaOm, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
GigaOm Sees A Crowded And Platform-Focused Object Storage Market
Research house GigaOm's 2025 Object Storage Radar report identifies 22 suppliers, up from last year's 18, with some dramatic changes in their status as the market shifts towards products with generic market appeal.
more → RTInsights, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
3 Reasons Why NVMe-oF is Redefining AI-scale Data Centers in 2025
As new data centers are designed for the future to support AI, NVMe-oF solutions are set to change the formula, allowing organizations to scale storage resources independently of compute, GPU, and memory.
more → BigDataWire, Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
GigaOm Rates the Object Stores
Thanks to their infinite scalability, object stores are the software medium of choice for today's big data and AI projects. But how do the various object stores compare? GigaOm shed some light on the question with its recent report.
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StorageNewsletter, Monday, August 11th, 2025
Recap Of The Future Of Memory And Storage Conference 2025
Really the industry annual rendez-vous with tons of announcements
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Unpacking Storage in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0
VCF 9.0 was released in mid-June and one important component in that portfolio is the storage stack. VMware's built-in storage solution VCF 9.0 had a new release of vSAN which we are going to explore further following TFD's session on this topic.
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Blocks & Files, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Sandisk Unveils 256 Tb Ssd For AI Workloads, Shipping In 2026
The Sandisk UltraQLC SN670 drive comes in 256 TB and 128 TB capacities, and uses BiCS 218-layer 3D NAND with its CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) 2 Tb die design, and a PCIe gen5 NVMe interface.
more → StorageReview, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Backblaze Q2 2025 Drive Stats: New 20TB+ Deep Dive, Aging Models Hold Steady
Backblaze has released its Q2 2025 Drive Stats report, offering another detailed look into the health and performance of the hard drives powering its cloud storage infrastructure.
more → SNIA, Monday, August 4th, 2025
SNIA Announces Storage.AI
Industry Leaders Combine Forces to Solve AI-Related Data Challenges
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Whatis, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
What Is Data In Use?
Data in use is data that is currently being updated, processed, erased, accessed or read by a system, application, user or device. This type of data is not being passively stored, but is instead actively moving through parts of an IT infrastructure.
more → Blocks & Files, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Kioxia Unveils Highest Capacity SSD At 245.76 TB
Online storage capacity constraints are melting away with Kioxia announcing the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and a five-rack exabyte configuration.
more → CIO, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Storage Best Practices: How To Address The Challenge Of Scaling AI Workloads
Read what tech experts and influencers have to say about getting the most value from your storage architecture so it can scale and adapt to evolving workloads.
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Blocks&Files, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Big Orgs Still Treating Storage Security As An Afterthought
Just over half of enterprises with more than 10,000 employees have integrated storage security into their overall cybersecurity strategy, with another fifth planning to do so.
more → The Register, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
HAMR Time: Seagate Unleashes 30 TB Disks To Feed The AI Beast
Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
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ComputerWorld, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Podcast: Hdds Performance Metrics And The Workloads They Excel At
We talk to Toshiba's Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them
more → StorageNewsletter, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
New Backup And Data Protection Magic Quadrant (MQ) From Gartner For 2025
Once again, Gartner changes the name of this Magic Quadrant (MQ) arguing some market changes needed alignments. It comes from 'Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions' to 'Backup and Data Protection Platforms'.
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