Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Cloud storage services have exploded in the last decade, largely due to the proliferation of low-cost object-based repositories, which have proven ideal for many of today's hyperscale workloads. Block ...

Object storage has grown in popularity because it can accommodate huge amounts of different kinds of data, such as files, video and audio. However, organizations should consider both object storage ...

MayaNAS delivers AI/HPC-scale performance with NAS simplicity, running Lustre on cloud object storage for the full AI ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

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, ...

The 50 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the 2023 Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. For all the emphasis on speeds and feeds, ...