The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB and a target downgrade for the LTO-14 generation of 365 TB from the prior 576 TB.

When data-center operators talk about 'reliability,' they often think of hardware redundancy or uptime. But in practice, the single greatest threat to uptime often originates long before a packet ever hits the wire.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Gordon" who told us about his time working for a storage vendor as the sole developer and maintainer of an application used by around 50 other employees.