Data growth stories
Zen Internet's UK network traffic jumped 21% in 2025, with repeated record peaks driven by live football and heavier daily streaming use.
Strong recurring revenue growth lifted Commvault’s full-year sales to USD $1.184 billion, while SaaS jumped 52% and cash flow hit a record.
Rising AI use is widening attack surfaces, while most organisations still need nearly a month to recover from cyber incidents.
The funding gives Wasabi room to expand storage capacity and global reach as demand rises for data-heavy AI workloads.
The deal gives Seagate an equity stake in Wasabi as enterprise customers face a more crowded cloud storage market and uncertain pricing.
Top Indian resellers are set to be rewarded in Thailand as Lexar courts a channel network vital to growing storage demand across 46 cities.
Yet most firms still cannot see where sensitive files sit, leaving unstructured data underprotected as AI and cloud use expand.
Enterprises could reclaim more than 70% of primary capacity as rising DRAM and SSD prices squeeze flash storage budgets.
World Backup Day now spotlights recoverability and data integrity as AI, cloud volatility and flash costs reshape corporate storage priorities.
Cohesity deepens its Cyera tie-up, embedding DSPM into its data cloud to sharpen discovery, classification and cyber recovery at scale.
Seagate begins volume shipments of Mozaic 4+ 44TB HAMR drives to hyperscalers, targeting exploding AI data storage and efficiency demands.
AI-hungry workloads are forcing data centres to go high-density, pushing power, cooling and sustainability to the top of the IT agenda.
Smartphones now underpin criminal investigations worldwide, with 97% of cases drawing on mobile data as agencies race to keep pace.
Datadobi promotes Daniel Esposito to lead global alliances, targeting services-led partners for unstructured data and governance projects.
Dell boosts PowerStore with 30TB QLC drives, metro sync replication and new NFSv4.2 features to pack in more data and harden resilience.
Hybrid cloud and mixed-media storage will overtake single-cloud and all-flash designs in 2026 as AI, costs and outages reshape data strategy.
Seagate has begun shipping 32TB CMR hard drives for AI-driven video and analytics, targeting edge security, NAS and cloud data centre workloads.
Imply warns soaring observability costs are forcing enterprises to cut log retention, leaving IT teams with blind spots during incidents.
AI rollout delays are stretching to a year as three-quarters of organisations report security incidents and governance gaps grow.
As AI drives explosive data growth, enterprises are rethinking storage, putting HDDs at the core of scalable, efficient, future-proof design.
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