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Dive into a week exploring the latest in IT storage with The Register – from hard drives to cloud. Understand the challenges and opportunities as we unravel the narrative of storage efficiency, security, and innovation at the enterprise level.

State	Forum	Posts	Latest Post
	The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives	32	By Annihilator Monday 16th June 2025 12:31 GMT
	Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches	7	By Roopee Monday 16th June 2025 14:42 GMT
	Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage	67	By ravenviz Monday 16th June 2025 18:12 GMT
	Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about	5	By Yet Another Anonymous coward Thursday 12th June 2025 17:44 GMT
	Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms	3	By logicalextreme Thursday 12th June 2025 15:48 GMT
	Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about	78	By Decay Friday 13th June 2025 16:34 GMT
	Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control	47	By druck Wednesday 11th June 2025 15:30 GMT
	Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later	27	By DS999 Tuesday 10th June 2025 19:08 GMT
	FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart	15	By K555 Tuesday 3rd June 2025 16:01 GMT
	37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions	157	By Billy Twillig Monday 12th May 2025 23:13 GMT
	Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle	16	By FILE_ID.DIZ Thursday 1st May 2025 01:11 GMT
	30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?	4	By @mysnapsplanet Sunday 6th April 2025 19:17 GMT
	Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks	11	By Raymondgu Wednesday 2nd April 2025 04:07 GMT