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 and object storage bring numerous benefits, such as massive scalability, flexibility and reduced cost of storage. But many – in fact, most – applications are just not written to take advantage ...

Cloud storage offers flexibility, scalability, and cost savings, but selecting the right type—object, file, or block—requires analyzing data types, access patterns, and goals. Object storage excels ...

Enterprise storage infrastructure provider Hitachi Vantura LLC today unveiled what it says is a single, hybrid cloud data platform that caters to both structured and unstructured information across ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...