Storage Economics
May 12, 2026
Enterprise SSD Prices Climbed 90% Over Two Quarters — Refresh Plans Need Rework
Enterprise SSD list pricing rose 40–50% in Q4 2025 and another 33–38% in Q1 2026, with NAND contracts projected up another 58–63% in Q2. Western Digital has reportedly sold out hard drives for all of 2026. Storage architects scoping refreshes in 2024 now face 2026 budgets that no longer cover the capacity originally planned — a structural shift tied to AI-driven HBM wafer demand, with relief unlikely before 2028.
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Ransomware Case
April 30, 2026
M&S Ransomware Attack: £300M Profit Hit, 46 Days Offline — Backups Existed
Marks & Spencer had backups, an incident response team, and decades of operational expertise when DragonForce ransomware hit over Easter 2025. None of it prevented £300M in lost operating profit, 46 days of suspended online sales, and a 55% drop in pre-tax profit. Attackers had been inside the network for two months before encryption — a stark reminder that backup existence is not the same as backup integrity.
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Industry Move
March 24, 2026
NetApp and Commvault Forge Alliance for Storage-Layer Ransomware Detection
NetApp and Commvault announced a strategic partnership to integrate storage-layer ransomware detection with automated recovery workflows across hybrid environments. The alliance signals an industry shift: cyber resilience is moving from bolt-on backup software toward unified detection and recovery built into the storage tier itself — a model enterprise infrastructure platforms have been advocating for years.
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Company News
April 2026
Intelssoft at OCP EMEA Summit 2026
Intelssoft joined the Open Compute Project EMEA Summit 2026 in Barcelona as an OCP Member, showcasing our work on open, vendor-neutral enterprise infrastructure. The team met with hyperscalers, telcos, and partners to discuss S3 object storage, VM migration, and disaster recovery built on OCP-aligned hardware. Open standards remain at the core of how we design and deliver infrastructure for enterprise and government clients.
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Datacenter Outage
March 1, 2026
40 Virginia Data Centers Simultaneously Drop Off the Power Grid
A high-voltage power line failure caused approximately 40 data centers to abruptly switch to backup power in a single event, forcing emergency grid operator action. The incident highlighted cascading risk when large facilities share grid infrastructure — and why on-site power redundancy alone is insufficient without a tested DR plan.
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Infrastructure Risk
April 2, 2026
Nearly Half of U.S. Data Centers Due This Year Face Delays or Cancellation
Bloomberg reports that roughly half of US data centers planned to open in 2026 may face significant delays or be cancelled outright, as supply chain strain and power grid limitations slow the AI infrastructure boom. Organizations relying on planned capacity expansions should prepare contingency DR and migration strategies now.
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S3 Storage
March 12, 2026
80% of Enterprise Unstructured Data Now Managed on S3-Compatible Storage
S3 has become the lingua franca of cloud infrastructure. In 2026, over 80% of enterprise unstructured data — AI datasets, backups, media archives, logs — runs on S3-compatible storage. Organizations migrating from hyperscaler storage to on-prem S3-compatible alternatives report 70–80% cost reduction.
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Object Storage
April 15, 2026
Wasabi to Acquire Seagate's Lyve Cloud Object Storage Business
Wasabi Technologies announced the acquisition of Seagate's Lyve Cloud business, consolidating two of the most prominent S3-compatible cloud storage players. The deal signals continued enterprise demand for hyperscaler alternatives — and growing scrutiny of egress costs, predictable pricing, and vendor independence in the object storage market.
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S3 Storage
April 2026
AWS Launches S3 Files: Buckets Accessible as File Systems
AWS introduced S3 Files, exposing S3 buckets as file systems while preserving native S3 API access — generally available in 34 regions. Thousands of compute resources can connect to the same S3 file system simultaneously without data duplication, blurring the line between file and object storage at petabyte scale.
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Disaster Recovery
April 28, 2026
Forrester Predicts Two Major Multi-Day Cloud Outages in 2026
Forrester forecasts at least two major multi-day cloud outages in 2026 as hyperscalers redirect investment toward AI infrastructure, leaving aging x86/ARM systems under-maintained. The firm reports 15% of enterprises now plan private AI on private clouds — citing recovery times that stretch from hours into days when complex systems fail.
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Migration
March 12, 2026
S3 Migration in Practice: A Well-Prepared 50TB Move Takes 1–3 Days
The S3 API standard has made cross-provider object storage migration dramatically simpler than legacy storage moves. rclone-based migration of 50TB typically completes in 1–3 days including testing and cutover. Application switches require only an endpoint URL change — no code modifications. Lifecycle policy configuration after migration can cut ongoing costs by an additional 20–40%.
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