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 ...

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 ...

If IT were a television show, it would be “Hoarders.” Organizations are creating and storing more and more data every day. According to research by IDC, by 2020 total data volumes will hit a ...

Hitachi Data Systems Tuesday expanded the definition of "unified storage" with the introduction of a new platform for combining block, file, and object storage under a single management framework. HDS ...

While compute and networking are fairly homogenous across the enterprise datacenter these days, the same cannot be said for storage, which is a bit of a mess and far less uniform than the clustered ...

Digital Ocean today announced Spaces, its object storage service. This complements the company’s block storage service. Both of these services have different use cases, of course; unlike the block ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday expanded its HP 3PAR storage offering with a software change that provides unified block, file, and object storage capabilities on the same array. The company also expanded ...