The Register, Friday, March 7th, 2025
Quad Goals: Meta Proposes QLC SSDs As A New Storage Tier In Datacenters
Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC
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ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
Flash Drive Prices Bump Along, As Sas Hdds Gain Mystery Bounce
Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
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Blocks&Files, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Storage Industry Bets Big On AI - But Where Are The Killer Apps?
The storage industry is making across-the-board investments to support generative AI workloads, but where are the must-have apps or supplier moats to sustain this investment?
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Search Storage, Monday, February 24th, 2025
What Is Storage Virtualization?
Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device or pool of available storage capacity. A central console is used to manage the storage.
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Storage Switzerland, Monday, February 24th, 2025
How to Eliminate Future Storage Refreshes with an Enterprise-Class vSAN
A storage refresh is often a costly and time-consuming process, forcing IT teams to evaluate, purchase, and migrate data every few years.
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techradar.pro, Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Beyond 100TB, Here'a How Western Digital Is Betting On Heat Dot Magnetic Recording To Reach The Storage Skies
As well as supercharging HDDs, WD is also exploring ceramics and DNA storage
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Analytics Insight, Thursday, February 20th, 2025
Definition: Defragmentation
Defragmentation is a process used to optimize the performance of a computer's hard drive by reorganizing fragmented data.
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How-To Geek, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
What Is A Helium Hard Drive?
Helium hard drives, a significant leap in hard disk drive (HDD) technology, offer promising improvements in storage density and power efficiency. The use of helium is the key to these advancements. Here's everything you need to know.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Global Software Defined Storage Market Size, Trends And Projections
According to the Market Research Intellect, the global Software Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions market is projected to grow at a robust CAGR of 15.41% from 2024 to 2031.
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Blocks&Files, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
It's HAMR Time For Wd As It Outlines Drive Migration Plans
Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing qualification by customers.
more → StorageReview.com, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze 2024 Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failures Drop As High-Capacity Models Take Over
Backblaze has released its 2024 Drive Stats Report, providing a detailed look at the failure rates of over 301,000 data drives in its storage infrastructure.
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Blocks&Files, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze Reveals Best And Worst Disk Drives With 2024 Failure Rate Stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Cloud Native Storage Market To Exceed $100.09B By 2032
Driven by cloud-native tech adoption and digital transformation as per findings from SNS Insider
more → BigDATAwire, Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Data-Centric World: Insights From Object Management Group's Latest Journal
Data isn't just an asset or a resource for an organization, it's a dynamic force that fuels innovation, shapes decision-making, and improves operational efficiency.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, January 31st, 2025
SANBlaze Releases OCP 2.5 Conformance Testing Software
Certified by SANBlaze test suite within its latest version 10.8 software supports all aspects of NVMe qualification with addition of industry accepted OCP 2.5, with ongoing work for OCP 2.6.
more → StorageReview.com, Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Enterprise AI Demand Makes the Case for 64G FC
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) training workloads is transforming data center infrastructure.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, January 27th, 2025
Main Benefits of Kubernetes on OpenStack
This educational blog post has been written by Carol Platz, VP of marketing, Lightbits Labs on November 19, 2024 and presents a high-level overview of Kubernetes on OpenStack for private clouds.
more → The Register, Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Here, With RAID Expansion And Faster Dedup
Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth'
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
GenAI, LlMS, And Agents Are Transforming Storage
GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event, similar to the arrival of the internet, and feared by some as a potential dotcom bubble-like event.
more → BigDATAwire, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Solidigm Celebrates World's Largest SSD with '122 Day'
Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
10 Data Storage Issues And How To Overcome Them
Don't overlook or ignore these 10 data storage issues -- including those related to staff, security and cost -- as they could disrupt operations without the proper planning.
more → ITProToday, Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Data Storage And Analytics Trends And Predictions 2025 From Industry Insiders
IT leaders and industry insiders share their data storage, management, and analytics trends and predictions for 2025.
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techradar, Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Seagate Smashes Largest HDD World Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Reveals A 60TB Model Is Coming
It took the world's largest HDD vendor only one month to add 4TB to its previous biggest HDD
more → techradar, Monday, January 20th, 2025
Here's Why 100TB+ SSDs Will Play A Huge Role In Ultra Large Language Models In The Near Future
Kioxia's AiSAQ solution uses high capacity drives to handle large datasets
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Data Storage Management: What Is It And Why Is It Important?
Effective data storage management is more important than ever, as security and regulatory compliance have become even more challenging and complex over time.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Global Data Center Storage To Reach $354 Billion By 2030
The global market for Data Center Storage was estimated at $123.6 Billion in 2023 and is projected to reach $354.0 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 16.2% from 2023 to 2030.
more → 9to5linux, Monday, January 13th, 2025
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out With Linux 6.12 Support, Raidz Expansion, Fast Dedup, And More
OpenZFS 2.3 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source advanced file system and volume manager for Linux and FreeBSD systems introducing support for the latest kernels and new features.
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Blocks&Files, Monday, January 6th, 2025
Storage Stack Layers And Players Going Into 2025
Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
more → Security Boulevard, Saturday, December 28th, 2024
Empowering Security: Mastering Least Privilege
Why is Mastering Least Privilege Essential?
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ITProToday, Friday, December 27th, 2024
Top 10 Stories About Data Storage Of 2024
In 2024, our most popular storage articles covered hardware refreshes, disaster recovery planning, and storage solutions for AI workloads.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, December 26th, 2024
HDDs To Remain Dominant Storage Footprint In 2025
HDDs will retain their top storage spot in the new year despite advances in flash, analysts say.
more → Search Storage, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Understand Your Storage Infrastructure Management
Emerging technology, such as AI and software-based storage management systems, have simplified how IT manages its infrastructure. Explore the many components of modern management.
more → Security Boulevard, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Stay Ahead: Key Trends In API Security Management
Are You Prepared for the Rising Trends in API Security Management?
more → Blocks & Files, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
The Case For High-Cap SSDs Overtaking HDDs As Datacenter Standard
With the arrival of 122 TB SSDs, the case for disk drives being replaced by SSDs suddenly looks much more compelling.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, December 20th, 2024
Impact Of AI On Storage Infrastructure
New findings from MinIO and UserEvidence in their Object Storage and AI Report over 656 IT companies
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
GigaOm Scale-Out Storage Report Redraws Vendor Landscape
Research house GigaOm has reviewed 19 suppliers of scale-out file storage in a single report, including data protection, hyperconverged infrastructure, and parallel file systems suppliers alongside existing scale-out filer vendors.
more → Storage Switzerland, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
What Is The Best Block Size For Testing Storage Performance?
If you noticed VergeIO's most recent press release, they reported their performance results (1 Million + IOPS) based on 64K block-sized tests-breaking away from the more common but less realistic 4K block-sized tests.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, December 5th, 2024
HDD Trends for 2025: A Comprehensive Outlook
Hard disk drives, or HDDs, are a well-established technology for storing data that have been around for a long time. They are known for being able to hold a lot of data and for being relatively inexpensive when you look at how much they can store.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Block vs. File vs. Object Storage: Differences Explained
Object storage has surged in popularity, but block and file still have clearly defined uses. Access, metadata and performance are among admins' key considerations.
more → ComputerWeekly, Friday, November 29th, 2024
Podcast: Areal Density, AI Design And The 50TB Hard Drive
We talk to Seagate about hard disk drives, the use of artificial intelligence to design them with higher areal density, more terabytes per platter, and capacities up to 50TB, especially with HAMR recording
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
Immutable Storage: What It Is, Why It's Used And How It Works
A major benefit of immutable storage is insurance against many forms of data loss, such as malicious deletion. It's not infallible, but positives outweigh the potential drawbacks.
more → Search Storage, Monday, November 25th, 2024
How The Key-Value SSD Promises To Outperform Block Storage
Key-value SSDs show potential in performance and storage management, but how would they be implemented? What other advantages do they offer over block storage?
more → RTInsights, Sunday, November 24th, 2024
5 Trends Reshaping The Data Landscape
Survey finds that the increased interest in generative AI and predictive AI, as well as the need to support traditional analytical workloads, is leading to a massive increase of data sprawl across industries.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, November 18th, 2024
288,076 Hard Drives Tested By Backblaze
As of the end of 3Q24, Backblaze was monitoring 292,647 HDDs and SSDs in its cloud storage servers located in our data centers around the world.
more → SNIA, Monday, November 18th, 2024
Storage For AI Q&A
Our recent SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF) webinar, 'AI Storage: The Critical Role of Storage in Optimizing AI Training Workloads,' was an insightful look at how AI workloads interact with storage at every stage of the AI data pipeline with a focus on data loading and checkpointing.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, November 14th, 2024
2025 Storage: Six Trends You Can't Ignore
Storage in 2025 will be defined by AI-driven automation, innovative data infrastructure, and sustainability efforts. Key trends include integrating large language models and vector databases, the rise of retrieval-augmented gen (RAG), and enhanced data observability for AI accuracy.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Micron, Solidigm Bring New High-Capacity SSDs To Market
Micron and Solidigm are launching new high-density SSDs that add to a growing market. AI workloads and hyperscalers are driving the demand.
more → StorageReview.com, Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
122TB PCIe SSD
Solidigm has introduced the industry's highest-capacity PCIe SSD, the 122TB D5-P5336. This SSD doubles the storage capacity of Solidigm's previous 61.44TB model and stands out as the world's first SSD offering unlimited random Write endurance for a full five years.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Solidigm, Phison Both Break 100 TB SSD Capacity Barrier
Solidigm has announced a 122 TB version of its D5-P5336 SSD the same day that Phison announced a Pascari D205V SSD with the exact same capacity.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Data Retention And Destruction Policy Template: Free Download
The downloadable data retention and destruction policy template here will help with compliance. Use this structure to develop other IT data management policies.
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