Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter
Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian covers AI in the enterprise, Future of Work issues, healthcare IT and FinTech.
Micron to build largest chip factory in US history
Micron plans to build a memory chip fabrication plant in upstate New York that it said will be the size of 40 football fields and create about 50,000 jobs. It may spend up to $100B over the next 20 years on the facility.
About that 'alarming' chip shortage — don't count on new fab plants to help quickly
A US Commerce Department report says the computer chip shortage is even worse than thought; at one point in 2021 there was just a five-day supply worldwide, and there's no sign the situation will improve anytime soon.
Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot'
IoT and blockchain may be a natural fit, but it will still take five to 10 years before kinks are worked out and the two technologies can reach their full potential, according to Gartner.
Is there hope for Optane persistent memory?
While 3D XPoint memory has been shipping as Optane from Intel for two years, it hasn't found a great deal of traction, but a new server DIMM and an upcoming Micron product release may change that.
FinOps services aim to tackle cloud financial management
As companies move farther away from on-premises data centers toward the cloud, figuring out how best to leverage that shift becomes increasingly important. That's where FinOps comes in.
Microsoft’s DNA storage tech may fit in an enterprise
Microsoft believes it can devise a viable DNA-based storage device to store the amount of information in an entire data center in a piece of hardware the size of a corporate copy machine.
Linux Foundation to develop tool for building blockchain business networks
The Linux Foundation said it has accepted Hyperledger Composer into its incubation working group and said the project should eventually help accelerate the development of smart contracts built on blockchain technology.
Intel's next-gen hyperfast Optane SSDs for PCs to ship in April
Intel's new Optane memory for PCs will let laptops and desktops boot up twice as fast and boost storage performance 14x for a range of activities.
Read this before you buy another hard drive
It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even...
Backblaze lists most reliable hard drives based on its massive cloud study
Overall, Western Digital's drives on average lasted the longest; Seagate's came in last
Seagate Wireless Plus review: A terabyte of mobile wireless storage
Seagate's Wireless Plus drive offers a terabyte of storage and a way to stash your videos, photos, music and documents or wirelessly stream them to your mobile devices.