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The State of Storage 2026

Dive into a week exploring the latest in IT storage with The Register – from hard drives to cloud. Understand the challenges and opportunities as we unravel the narrative of storage efficiency, security, and innovation at the enterprise level.

GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech

High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows

Close-up of green RAM memory modules arranged in a pile

Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold

Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices

Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one

Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations

MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish

AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off

A hard disk drive on a bench in a Seagate research & development lab, opened up to show the platters inside

AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning

Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028

Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package

Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26

Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix

Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived

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AI is storage's biggest opportunity – and biggest threat

Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%

Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC

Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’

Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint

A hard disk drive platter with 1s and 0s projected onto it

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs

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