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, ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

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 ...

Why choice matters: Different storage types — object, file, and block — are built for specific workloads, so matching them to your use case impacts cost and performance. AWS vs Azure: AWS offers ...

At times, I get nostalgic for the good old days – a simpler time when the Olympics were in Beijing, WALL-E was the number one movie at the box office, the Phillies won the World Series, and the ...

Quantum Corporation jumped head-first into the scale-out file and object storage market earlier this month by announcing its new Quantum Myriad all-flash storage solution. It’s no surprise that ...

Amazon Web Services has introduced S3 Files, a new capability allowing its S3 cloud storage to function like a traditional file system. The feature uses a “stage and commit” model to reconcile file ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated ...