April Fool’s 2026 – A Tradition We Wish to Carry On

A series of incredible news today with:

• European Union and Commission adopts pure European software
• Amazon decided to stop S3 immediately
• Microsoft wishes to promote (again) FAT12
• 10PB tape is ready
• Seagate, WD and Toshiba finally merge
• 1PB HDD arrived this summer and finally fill the gap with 1PB SSD but we heard that 10PB SSD are ready as well
• NAND flash vendors just decided to launch HDD
• Only valid today, 1PB SSD at $1,000 !!
• DNA storage is ready and faster than NAND
• French nuclear technology is adopted worldwide
• Thor Deadlifts GTC, Vdura GPU Storage Optimized Airborne, Signaling Space Data Centers Next
• Mars data centers will enter in production next Monday
• StorPool buys Antropic and OpenAI in a $5 trillion deal
• DDN brings a fully working AI Factory on a bus: GPU‑powered demos rolling to you
• Storware Ransomware Negotiation-as-a-Service: for excitement when recovery is just too easy
• New Open-E JovianDSS HA Cluster extension: ‘Emotional Support Node’ to remind all’s going to be fine
• JuiceFS supports 500,000,000,000 files in a single volume, not kidding
• Coldago buys Gartner

As you can imagine, all of the statements above are simply April Fools’ inputs we gather from the market – an opportunity that comes around only on this day. Thank you for your attention.