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LTO-10 Bumped To 40 TB As Future Tape Capacities Get Cut

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.

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Configuring Data Center Networks With Confidence

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.

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Developer Battled To Write His Own Documentation, But Lost The Boss Fight

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.

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Techie Ran Up $40,000 Bill Trying To Download A Driver

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'William,' who like many of you got his first taste of computers from behind the keyboard of a Commodore Amiga.

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ERP Carnage Continues As Orgs Jump In Unprepared

Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure

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Encryption, Encoding And Hashing Explained

Encoding is a process of transforming the data into different parameters to enhance its compatibility, usefulness, and to transmit it through various systems and applications.

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AI Isn’t Throttling HPC. It Is HPC

In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I've also seen articles implying that AI is somehow displacing HPC. Huh?

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Edge AI vs Cloud AI: What Does The Future Look Like?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting the world more so than ever. Whether we are talking about smartphones, security cameras, hospitals, or factories, AI is enabling machines to think and act intelligently. But have you ever thought about where all of this thinking is taking place? Is it all happening on the device, or is it all happening somewhere far away on the internet?

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Top 10: Edge AI Solutions

The edge AI market is surging in specialisation as global spending on edge computing solutions is set to spike, demanding enhanced platforms from leaders

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How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Is Fueling The Next Era Of Developer Productivity

The landscape of software development is undergoing a profound transformation, driven largely by the rapid advancements in AI.

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15 Best Vibe Coding Tools And Editors To Use In 2026

AI has changed how teams develop software products. Instead of writing every line inside a traditional IDE, developers now describe what they want and let an AI-supported tool handle a large share of the execution.

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Only 9% Of Developers Think AI Code Can Be Used Without Human Oversight, Bairesdev Survey Reveals

Senior software developers are preparing for a major shift in how they work as artificial intelligence becomes central to their workflows, according to BairesDev's latest Dev Barometer report published today. VentureBeat was given an exclusive early look and the findings below come directly from that report.

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All Your Old Data Centers Are Dead

That was how Guy Massey of CommScope opened his LinkedIn post, and I bet if you were there, you could almost hear a collective gasp across the server room.

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Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats: Failure Rates Climb, Outliers Emerge, And AI Workloads Reshape Infrastructure

Backblaze has published its Q3 2025 Drive Stats and Network Stats reports, offering another data-rich look at the health and performance of its massive cloud storage infrastructure.

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NVMe speeds vs. SATA and SAS: Which is fastest?

The NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces, plus recent specifications.

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What The Latest Data Reveals About Hard Drive Reliability

What really counts as a hard drive failure? That's the question at the center of Backblaze's Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Businesses

AI's vast capabilities are already transforming business and changing the nature of many jobs.

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Charting The AI-Driven Future Of Manufacturing

IDC's 2026 Manufacturing FutureScape explores how AI, data, and cloud innovation are reshaping factories, supply chains, and the industrial workforce.

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