As the world now knows, cloud computing – with its scale-up-and-down resources and pay-as-you-go model – is a flexible and cost-efficient way to deploy IT infrastructure, databases and applications, ...

From the new AWS Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to expanding support for copying data to and from other clouds like Oracle and NetApp, here’s seven new AWS cloud storage offerings just launched. Some of the ...

IT managers face new storage challenges as companies generate growing volumes of unstructured data. Whether it’s high-res images, backup data, or IoT-generated information, this data needs to be ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that we’re witnessing the rebirth of object storage. For years, object storage was perceived as a solution best suited to inexpensive backup, long-term archive, and massive ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...