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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
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.
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Help Net Security, Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
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 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
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.
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ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
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/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
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
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
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the 'bathtub curve' effect may be imaginary.
more → Analytics Insight, Saturday, October 18th, 2025
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
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.
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Search Storage, Monday, October 6th, 2025
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
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
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
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
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.
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Blocks & Files, September 16,2025
We have enough silo-based problems. Deduplication shouldn't be another.
more → ComputerWeekly.com, Thursday, September 11th, 2025
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
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
First object store to support operational databases, with major usability and compatibility enhancements
more → linuxiac, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Really the industry annual rendez-vous with tons of announcements
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
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
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 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
Industry Leaders Combine Forces to Solve AI-Related Data Challenges
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Whatis, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
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
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
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
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
Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
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ComputerWorld, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
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
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'.
more → Search Storage, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
If you're looking for cloud storage or an on-premises platform with similar billing methods, you might find what you need in this list of 14 storage-as-a-service providers.
more → FMIBlog, Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
The storage area network (SAN) market is expected to grow steadily from 2025 to 2035, driven by increasing demand for high-speed data storage, enterprise cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered storage management solutions. It is projected to reach USD 23.01 billion in 2025 and expand to USD 33.12 billion by 2035, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7% during the forecast period.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
Interview: We had the opportunity to speak with Ahmed Shihab, Western Digital chief product and engineering officer, and he told us that WD's HAMR tech is progressing well, that OptiNAND can provide a capacity advantage, and that the company has a way to increase the bandwidth per terabyte of disk drives.
more → The Register, Friday, June 13th, 2025
Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Around the end of last year, right after SC24 in Atlanta, GA, I realized that 2025 will arrive fast, representing the first 25 years of the century, a pretty unique moment. I asked myself about the technologies that impacted our industry the most and I decided to add this simple question to our survey as question #0.
more → The Register, Monday, June 9th, 2025
The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult - will it be worth it?
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 6th, 2025
Hard drives prefer a stable and consistent operation at temperatures, ideally no higher than 40 degress C says Toshiba
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Four fifths of organizations have been burned by employees using Gen AI, with the leaking of sensitive data almost as common as false or inaccurate results, research by Komprise has found.
more → Search Data Center, Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. This modern approach is one aspect of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
more → techradar, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
CM9 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs are sampling to select customers now
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How-To Geek, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
At 122.88TB, the Solidigm D5-P5336 is the world's largest SSD. It's intended for datacenters, of course, and the $12,399 price tag is probably beyond your budget anyway, but it's an impressive piece of hardware that serves a compelling purpose.
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