HPCWire, Friday, November 6th, 2026
The Data Stack Consolidation: Confluent, EDB and Google Take Different Routes
Confluent, EDB and Google Cloud each announced ways to cut the layers and data copies in the enterprise data stack.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Musk's Colossus DC Cluster - What's the Storage Situation?
Blocks & Files examines what storage SpaceXSI's five-site Colossus 2 AI cluster near Memphis likely needs, with VAST Data and DDN as suppliers.
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StorageSwiss.com, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why HCI Fell Short for Midsize IT, and What a VMware Alternative Needs Instead
StorageSwiss says HCI failed midsize IT on simplicity and cost, so a VMware alternative needs one code base on servers it already owns.
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Blocks and Files, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
VDURA CEO's Long Live the Short King Blog
VDURA CEO Ken Claffey argues that for KV cache flash tiers, write bandwidth and drive count matter more than SSD capacity.
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SNIA, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
STA Plugfest Showcases Continued SAS Innovation and Interoperability
SNIA STA Plugfest in Santa Clara tested SAS interoperability, including the first preliminary test of the proposed SCSI to NVMe Translation spec.
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Micron Skipping Planned NAND Generation
Micron will jump from G9 to G11 3D NAND, with twice the bit density and more than 400 layers, ramping in late 2027.
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Blocks & Files, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Meta's Prometheus Using Object Storage for Massive AI Training Jobs
Meta moved its gigawatt Prometheus training cluster from file storage to multi-tiered cached object storage to cut GPU idle time.
more → TechRadar, Monday, October 12th, 2026
Kioxia Beats Its Own World Record With the Fastest SSD Ever Produced: New PCIe 6.0 GP1 Tops 20M IOPS
Kioxia's upgraded GP drive tops 20 million random-read IOPS as part of its plan to rival DRAM for AI workloads.
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TechTarget, Friday, October 9th, 2026
Explore High-Performance Storage for Real-Time Analytics
Legacy SAN, NAS and HDD storage bottlenecks real-time analytics and AI; flash and NVMe architectures deliver needed low latency.
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TechRadar, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
Hard Drives Were Supposed to Lose the Storage War, but AI Demand Is Now Pushing Their Biggest Suppliers Years Ahead
AI data centers favor cheap HDD capacity over SSDs, prompting Toshiba's $380M plan to nearly double AI storage drive output by FY2027.
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StorageNewsletter, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
Backblaze Publishes Q2 2026 Drive Stats: Quarterly Failure Rate Rises to 1.73%
Backblaze's Q2 2026 Drive Stats shows annualized failure rate rising to 1.73% from 1.24%, as 20TB+ drives top a quarter of its fleet.
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Blocks and Files, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
Distant Third HDD Maker Toshiba Spending $380 Million to Catch Up
Toshiba will invest about $380M to nearly double nearline HDD capacity at its Philippine plant by FY2027 to chase AI storage demand.
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StorageSwiss, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Hybrid Storage Failed Once. Will It Fail Again?
Soaring flash prices revive hybrid storage, and George Crump says success depends on where tiering logic runs.
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TechTarget, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
How the 'Great Storage Squeeze' Impacts Infrastructure Strategies
Omdia research shows the 2026 flash and DRAM shortage is forcing IT leaders to rethink storage planning, procurement and data retention.
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StorageReview, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S Review: Gen4 QLC for Mixed Workloads
StorageReview tests Solidigm's 30.72TB D5-P5430 Gen4 QLC SSD for mixed data center workloads.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
IDC's Latest Enterprise Storage Tracker Shows Booming Storage Market Growth
IDC recorded 33.6% annual enterprise storage market growth in Q2 2026, with all-flash arrays taking over half of revenue.
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SecurityWeek, Monday, September 21st, 2026
CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis, the Accidental Global CISO at Comcast
Comcast Global CISO Noopur Davis credits her unplanned rise from developer to security leader to seizing interesting opportunities.
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StorageReview, Monday, September 21st, 2026
IDC External Storage Tracker: $10.3 Billion in Q2 2026 as Server Market Tops $166 Billion on AI Demand
IDC reports Q2 2026 enterprise storage revenue hit $10.3B and server revenue hit a record $166.3B, both driven by AI demand.
more → Blocks & Files, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
CTERA Finds 95% of Enterprise File Data Rarely Used
Cloud file system supplier CTERA reports that only 4.4% of enterprise file data is actively used.
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TechRadar, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
AI's Overlooked Storage Opportunity
Quantum's Skip Levens argues modern LTO tape is a cost-effective, secure tier for holding large AI datasets until needed.
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DCIG, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
6 Early Insights Into DCIG's SDS Object Storage Research
DCIG shares six early findings from its research into software-defined object storage products ahead of its TOP 5 reports.
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CIO, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Why Data Sovereignty Has Become A Strategic IT Priority
Data sovereignty has moved from a compliance checkbox to a board-level resilience and portability question.
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DCIG, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
NFS Should Be The Default Backup File Protocol, With SMB Reserved For Specific Windows Or App Requirements
5 Reasons NFS Makes the Best Default File Protocol for Backup
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DATAVERSITY, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Data Is Risky Business: Thinking Beyond Systems For Data Governance
Governance fails in the gap between designed systems and what people actually do day to day.
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Virtualization Review, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Gartner: Hypervisor Replatforming Is Reshaping Enterprise Storage
Hypervisor migration is forcing enterprises to evaluate storage and virtualization platforms as one decision.
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StorageNewsletter, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, 2026
StorageNewsletter challenges the methodology and vendor inclusion criteria behind Gartner's 2026 storage quadrant.
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SC Media, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How to Build a Data Discovery and Classification Program
Deploying a DSPM tool is not a program; coverage scope, ownership, and continuous discovery are what matter.
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StorageReview, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Enterprise SSD Prices Run at 6.5x Last Year: VDURA Pegs a 30TB TLC Drive at $22,600
VDURA's Flash Volatility Index shows enterprise SSD prices holding at 6.5x year-ago levels, 18.6x HDD capacity cost.
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TechTarget, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
7 Expert-Recommended Data Observability Tools
Commercial data observability tools help teams monitor data quality, security and pipelines with vendor support.
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TechTarget, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Energy-Efficient Storage Architecture in the AI Era
AI workloads make power the binding constraint, requiring energy-conscious storage design.
more → TechRadar, Sunday, August 16th, 2026
Kioxia's New 10M IOPS PCIe 6.0 SSD Is So Fast It Rivals Legacy DDR3 RAM
Kioxia unveils a PCIe 6.0 SSD hitting 10M IOPS with performance approaching legacy DDR3 memory.
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StorageReview, Sunday, August 16th, 2026
RAM, GPU, and Storage for Agentic AI: How Much You Actually Need
StorageReview provides a lab-verified sizing guide covering VRAM, system RAM, storage and KV cache math for local AI.
more → StorageReview, Saturday, August 15th, 2026
Best Enterprise SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
StorageReview ranks six data center drives across mixed-use, read-intensive, high-capacity and EDSFF categories on lab data.
more → TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
SSD Prices Still Rocketing Up Faster Than Disk
Enterprise SSDs are about 6.5x more expensive than a year ago, versus 2.5x for hard drives.
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The Register, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
NVMe Polishes Its Specs, Brings Virtualization to Locally Attached SSDs
NVMe specifications updated with SSD virtualization, post-quantum cryptography, and live migration support.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
Flash vs. SSD: Choose the Right Drive by Key Specs
Flash is the chip technology; SSDs are complete devices with controllers and firmware built around flash memory.
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TechRadar Pro, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
How Cloud Architecture Is Reinventing Primary Storage for the AI Era
Primary storage is being redefined as software-managed and globally distributed rather than tied to hardware or proximity to compute.
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The Register, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
AI Is Storage's Biggest Opportunity - and Biggest Threat
AI revolutionizes storage with faster data access and better security, but also introduces risks from rogue agents and sophisticated attacks.
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TechTarget, Friday, July 24th, 2026
The 5 Pillars of Data Observability
Freshness, distribution, volume, schema and lineage let organizations monitor and manage complex data pipelines.
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Help Net Security, Friday, July 17th, 2026
A Hard Drive Reliability Check on 341,263 Drives, From 4TB to Past 20TB
Backblaze's Q1 2026 report on 341,263 drives shows a 1.24% annualized failure rate, with 20TB+ drives performing strongly.
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TechTarget, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Building Cyber-Resilient Storage Beyond Backup
Backup alone is no longer enough; cyber-resilient storage adds high-performance architectures and AI monitoring for fast recovery.
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Analytics Insight, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
7 Best Software Tools for Managing Unstructured Data in 2026
A ranked guide to seven platforms for storing, moving and preparing unstructured data, led by Flexor's AI Context Engine.
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Backblaze Blog, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026
Backblaze's Q1 2026 drive report, delayed by a data anomaly, shows high-capacity drives excelling.
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze: High-Capacity Disk Drives Are Looking Good
Backblaze's latest drive stats show high-capacity 20TB-plus drives delivering strong reliability.
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HighFens, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Why AI Storage Standards Matter for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
SNIA's open storage standards make storage a first-order AI design decision that cuts GPU idle time.
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SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Storage Gets Promoted in the Agentic AI Era
Agentic AI's massive context memory needs are making storage a strategic part of the inference engine.
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Blocks and Files, Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
GigaOm Object Radar Has 26 Platform Players vs Seagate
GigaOm's Object Storage Radar ranks 27 vendors, with Seagate the lone feature-led player among 26 platforms.
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SSOJet, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Who Can See This File? Bringing SSO-Grade Access Control to Enterprise Documents
Enterprises should extend SSO identity-based access control to document-level security to close permission gaps.
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Storage Switzerland, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
What Is AI-Driven Infrastructure?
AI-driven infrastructure uses intelligent assistants to automate routine IT tasks so admins can focus on strategy.
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StorageReview, Friday, June 19th, 2026
HighPoint Rocket 1604L Review: Four Gen5 M.2 SSDs, One Slot, 55.6GB/s
The HighPoint Rocket 1604L fits four Gen5 M.2 SSDs in one PCIe slot with near-native performance via retimer technology.
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