Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

Chris Mellor -
Semiconductor industry watchers say the memory market has entered a prolonged upcycle, with DRAM and NAND likely to remain in…
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Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID

Chris Mellor -
Cohesity has increased its Identity Resilience functionality to better protect Microsoft’s Active Directory and Entra ID. The Cohesity Identity Resilience…

Komprise’s response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns

Chris Mellor -
Data manager Komprise has its own take on how organizations should respond to substantial enterprise SSD prices rises and lengthened…

Dell plans single global IT stack to replace decades of internal sprawl

Chris Mellor -
Dell is replacing a patchwork of internal IT systems with a single unified environment in a two-step process covering the…

Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority

Chris Mellor -
In a high-performance computing (HPC) world that’s historically focussed on parallel file systems for feeding data as fast as possible…

VDURA says enterprise SSDs now 16 times more expensive than disk drives

Chris Mellor -
HPC and AI storage supplier VDURA says the price gap between SSDs and hard disk drives is widening as flash…

Samsung, SK hynix cut NAND wafer output to shore up margins

Chris Mellor -
Samsung and SK hynix are reducing their flash wafer output this year to increase profitability, according to analyst firm Omdia.…

From AI Ambition to AI Production: Escaping the AI Pilot Trap

Colin Gallagher, Senior Director, Product Marketing, HPE Storage -
Everyone wants AI, but the pilots won’t land because the runway was never built Enterprise interest in artificial intelligence has…

A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead

Chris Mellor -
The high-bandwidth flash (HBF) market could be bigger than high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in 12 years' time according to the leading…

Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab

Chris Mellor -
Micron is buying a 300,000 sq ft cleanroom fab site in Taiwan from Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) for $1.8…

DNA Data Storage: When the physics work but the economics don’t

Philipp L. Antkowiak. -
DNA can store data for centuries, but at a price no one can pay – yet. Every few centuries, humanity…

Storage news ticker - 16 January 2026

Chris Mellor -
There will be  February 2026 Deposit Ceremony at the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard. AWA says “This ceremony is a…

Acronis adds archive service using Seagate’s Lyve Cloud

Chris Mellor -
Acronis has launched an Archival Storage service for managed service providers and their small/medium business customers. It provides S3-compatible object…

HYCU, Keepit lead IDC SaaS data protection report

Chris Mellor -
IDC has positioned HYCU and Keepit as leaders in a SaaS data protection vendor assessment for 2025-2026. Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault,…

Storage News Ticker - 15 January

Chris Mellor -
Data protector Catalogic released DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery platform. “People will continue…

Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite

Chris Mellor -
A Dell VP has said reclaiming installed SSDs for reuse is risk-laden as data could be lost. David Noy, VP…

SK hynix developing split-cell 5-bit flash

Chris Mellor -
SK hynix presented its latest 5-bit cell NAND flash technology at the San Francisco 2025 IEDM conference in December. The…

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