Microsoft is preparing to raise the 1.5 TB ceiling on Exchange Online auto-expanding archive mailboxes, with rollout planned from October 2026. The change is currently limited to customers with eligible Office 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 licenses, and Microsoft has not yet disclosed the new maximum capacity or whether extra storage will incur additional charges.

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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Release 6 is now generally available, making the vendor’s unified-storage strategy concrete by placing block and file workloads on the same disaggregated scale-out architecture. Performance and capacity can grow independently, while ransomware detection now covers both data types.

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Tape storage is gaining momentum as AI workloads push backup systems beyond the practical limits of disk. LTO shipments reached 160.3 exabytes in 2025, and capacity shipments jumped 57 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2026, as organizations sought cheaper, lower-power archives with built-in offline protection.

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WinBtrfs 1.10 gives Windows 11 users broader native access to Linux’s Btrfs filesystem, including the ability to write free-space bitmaps and compressed inline files without using Linux kernel code. The release also improves stability after more than two years without a major update, but removes RAID support for removable devices.

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