Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Nvidia’s inference context memory storage initiative based will drive greater demand for storage to support higher quality and more efficient AI inference experience.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    The 2026 CES featured lots of digital storage and memory technologies including SSDs, NAS products, DRAM and HBM as well as new non-volatile memory embedded products.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Nvidia’s Rubin AI drives higher demand for storage and memory. Expect continued shortages and higher prices in 2026. Jensen Huang named 2026 IEEE Medal of Honor winner.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    AI is driving demand and higher prices for DRAM and NAND into 2026. Products using non-volatile memories to replace NOR and SRAM in embedded applications are growing.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    The Komprise data management survey shows that 74% have 5PB or more of stored data and 85% of participants expect to spend more on data storage in 2026 than in 2025.

Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Contributor    More than ever, building and maintaining trust, the bedrock of every business, succeeds or fails based on how data is handled.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Pixitmedia media survey shows increased demand for unified media archives that use AI for management and content enhancement and balance on-premises versus cloud storage.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between 25B and 35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape will ship over 400EB by 2030.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    At the 2025 MRAM Forum major foundries talked about automotive applications, magnetic field sensitivity and MRAM manufacturing equipment and test equipment.

Katharina Buchholz, Contributor    In November, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it had stopped the production of pennies due to cost concerns. How many countries have made similar decisions?

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Micron announced that it will exit the consumer memory business by February 2026 and focus on the more lucrative enterprise and data center markets.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Atlas Data Storage announced its Atlas Eon 100 scalable synthetic DNA storage service. Synthetic DNA is a technologies vying to support long term data preservation.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    Seagate demonstrated 6.9TB per disk, likely with multi-level recording. The demonstration mentioned a move from magnetic to ferroelectric recording in the future.

Katharina Buchholz, Contributor    The global AI craze has given energy-intensive data centers yet another boost. But how big is their role in rising global electricity demand really?

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    The CXL consortium announced its 4th generation interconnect with up to 128GT s performance. DDN announced support for sovereign AI.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    The LTO Program announced 40TB LTO-10 tapes by 2026. Vdura released a new data platform allowing higher capacity per rack using SMR HDDs.

Katharina Buchholz, Contributor    As the U.S. government shutdown drags on, SNAP recipients have not collected funds to purchase groceries. This has left many scrambling, including working families, single mothers, disabled and elderly Americans.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    WDC and Seagate limited investor information on total HDD and particularly nearline units shipped as well as information on ASPs for CQ2 25. Do investors want to know?

Katharina Buchholz, Contributor    Major changes to Obamacare premiums will likely send insurance costs for Americans soaring next year, especially for those with medium incomes.

Thomas Coughlin, Contributor    OpenDrives showed how their Astraeus cloud-native data service platform enables Kubernetes-based high-performance storage for on-premises and hybrid cloud workloads.

Moor Insights and Strategy, Senior Contributor    Analyst Paul-Smith Goodson gives a look into the diverse theories that try to explain the intricacies of quantum systems and how our interactions affect them and his a look at the two most popular quantum interpretations.

Patrick Moorhead, Senior Contributor    1-ranked industry analyst Patrick Moorhead discusses Zoho as one of the lesser-known enterprise-level SaaS companies and arguably the most successful business software as a service (SaaS) company you have never heard of. Patrick Moorhead looks at what Zoho is doing to make such a statement.