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 ...

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 ...

There’s a great buzz around object storage. Though the basic technology has been around since the 1990s, its popularity is only now starting to grow rapidly. Is object storage the right solution for ...

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 ...

MinIO Inc., developer of a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 service, today announced a version of its cloud storage service designed to ...

Object storage, data lakes, and Edge computing will play a big part in shaping the future of unstructured data storage and AI The data deluge is here, and according to IDC, 80 percent of it is ...

Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, for years, the storage area network (SAN) seemed to prevail for high-end, performance-tailored storage, ...

IDC on Wednesday said the worldwide market for file-based and object-based storage is gaining momentum, and that cloud vendors building their own object-based storage systems is driving this market to ...

Today’s “left-over” data can be the basis of tomorrow’s breakthrough. As we keep data for longer and try harder to share and re-use data, it becomes critical that data is accurately catalogued and ...