Antony Adshead

We talk to Seagate about hard disk drives, use of AI to design HDDs with higher areal density, more TB per platter, and capacities up to 50TB, especially with HAMR recording.

Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes.

In this guide, we examine the differences between flash storage and HDD, the rise of NVMe and much denser formats such as QLC, and whether or not flash will vanquish HDD in the all-flash datacentre

Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this

We look at S3, AWS’s object storage protocol that originated in its cloud services and has now spread as near enough a standard and to third party on-prem deployments

Bigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus.

Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets

Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets.

We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it

Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level.

From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays.

We look at the use of vector data in AI, how vector databases work, plus vector embedding, the challenges for storage of vector data and the key suppliers of vector database products

We look at key-value storage, which promises much greater I/O efficiency and longer flash drive lifespans, but may be constrained by limited use cases and lukewarm productisation efforts.

Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte

In this guide we look at the market-leading container platform Kubernetes, how it works and the challenges with persistent storage and backup and how they have been overcome

University innovation body avoids hardware spend and management time as it switches from tape to SaaS cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit

AI is seen by IT leaders as essential, but it requires innovation, skills and infrastructure, all of which are under pressure from day-to-day firefighting, energy costs and cyber-threats

We talk to NetApp’s Chris McKean about ransomware attacks and the role of data storage in protecting against them.

US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning-disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use

We talk to Sergey Pronin of Percona about new storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31, including volume attribute class and changes to persistent volumes, as well as other long-term fixes.