For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Object storage is the bedrock of cloud computing services. It’s the basis for services such as Dropbox, Facebook’s file system, and is the foundation Amazon’s S3 cloud storage; arguably the largest ...

Far too often, conversations about enterprise storage focus on the on-prem storage vendors. Even in our multi-cloud world, we ask how NetApp and Dell Technologies integrate with the public cloud.

Object storage is vastly more scalable than traditional file system storage because it’s vastly simpler. Instead of organizing files in a directory hierarchy, object storage systems store files in a ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Amazon’s Jeff Barr described that landmark number in vivid terms on the Amazon Web Services blog. “That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our ...

Once used primarily for archiving and backup, the technology is gaining traction for its mammoth capacity, processing power, and cybersecurity capabilities. In association withHitachi Vantara When ...

Data is transforming the world of business by enabling companies to find new efficiencies, gain new customer insights and enter new markets. However, all of this information comes at a cost. The ...

With "Object Storage", the internet service provider Hetzner is now offering object storage as part of its product portfolio. The storage solution is compatible with Amazon S3 and is designed to offer ...

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...