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How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation

February 19, 2026

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Microsoft Project Silica finds cheaper glass, boosts write speeds but trims capacity

February 19, 2026

StorONE arrays adopt external flash JBODs in flash program

February 19, 2026

Flamethrower from Backblaze to fire up startup cloud storage

February 18, 2026

Quantum results show green shoots as tape sales double

February 18, 2026

Platters: WD new disk drive tech hits lucky 14

February 18, 2026

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Court dismisses NetApp complaint against ex-CTO now at VAST, but NetApp is appealing

February 18, 2026

Suite Studios cuts out proprietary file formats with S3-native streaming

February 17, 2026

Pure Storage wants to demolish your storage silos

February 17, 2026

Dell VP says discrete beats disaggregated storage for AI

February 16, 2026

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SK Hynix proposes HBM and HBF hybrid for LLM inference

February 16, 2026

Cubbit powers Swiss cantonal-level sovereign cloud for Ailanto

February 16, 2026

Storage news ticker - 13 February 2026

February 13, 2026

Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming

February 13, 2026

Lenovo restructures ISG unit after quarter driven by AI growth

February 13, 2026

More storage supply chain pain incoming: Oh no, not NOR too

February 12, 2026

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Xinnor's alternative software RAID filer for AI

February 12, 2026

Nutanix invited inside Dell’s Private Cloud

February 11, 2026

StreamFast eSSD and the Open Flash Platform

February 10, 2026

Simplyblock provides Postgres Git-style branching

February 10, 2026

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IBM refreshes FlashSystem lineup with faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays

February 10, 2026

Storage news ticker – 9 February 2026

February 9, 2026

OFP’s data server killers aiming for AI system scalability and efficiency nirvana

February 9, 2026

StreamFast: Stream arbitrary length data to SSDs with device-assigned addresses and no FTL

February 6, 2026

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BDT tape library transparently runs pilot holographic storage drive

February 6, 2026

VAST Data plans funding round so early stockholders can get cash

February 5, 2026

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Cohesity deepens Google Cloud integration

February 5, 2026

MinIO plugs Apache Iceberg tables directly into AIStor

February 5, 2026

DDN appoints vice chairman amid enterprise AI expansion

February 5, 2026

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MariaDB discusses database scale and active:active and active:passive architectures

February 4, 2026

Intel and Softbank aim ZAM at HBM

February 4, 2026

Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale

February 3, 2026

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Samsung shipping fast and small PCIe Gen5 bus 4TB mini-gumstick drive

February 3, 2026

Western Digital blows hard disk drive future wide open

February 3, 2026

Hitachi Vantara warns poor data foundations are stalling AI projects

February 2, 2026

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Commvault pitches Geo Shield for sovereign data protection

February 2, 2026

Storage news ticker – February 2

February 2, 2026

Western Digital is more profitable than Seagate

January 30, 2026