#data-storage

#data-storage

"Organisations navigating their way through the AI/ML era need to reconfigure their storage architectures to keep up, and LTO tape technology is an essential piece of the puzzle."

"I did once open a box to find a moth had nested inside and feasted on the paper... the tape was too fragile to handle and essentially useless."

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, and I am not amused. I'm also not a freeloader demanding support for a free account. Over the years, my wife and I have paid almost $1,000 to Mozilla's bookmarking service for secure article storage.

We’ve learned a lot about handling extremely large and extremely high-speed, unstructured data workloads, particularly in media and entertainment, where the amount of data tends to be drastically larger than what you'd see in an enterprise.

Nvidia remains dominant in AI hardware despite stock price declines, with its new Blackwell Ultra GPU designed for high-performance reasoning models announced at GTC 2025.

Parquet has emerged as a standard format for efficient data storage in Big Data ecosystems due to its column-oriented structure, enabling faster query performance.

I regularly bore people by raving about how great I think Samsung's T7 Shield Portable SSD is. It's pretty much lived on my desk since I bought it.

"HAMR works on the principle that, when heated, a disk's magnetic materials can hold more data in smaller spaces, allowing for greater overall data capacity on the drive."

"Data lakes hold raw data... the data lake is where the business's various data streams are gathered, whether from supply chain, customers, marketing, inventory or sensor data from plant or machinery."