In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

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 ...

Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers ...

The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, ...

BlackPearl and DS3 are currently available from Spectra Logic. For cloud storage to continue to support the growth of the mobile device infrastructure and the content needs for internet traffic, HDDs ...

European cloud provider Scaleway has launched resilient object storage across multiple availability zones in Europe. The Multi-AZ Object Storage service will support up to 10 billion objects and ...

Object storage is vastly more scalable than traditional file system storage because it’s vastly simpler. Instead of organizing files in a directory hierarchy, object storage systems store files in a ...