For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody ...

Object storage is the bedrock of cloud computing services. It’s the basis for services such as Dropbox, Facebook’s file system, and is the foundation Amazon’s S3 cloud storage; arguably the largest ...

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 ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

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Amazon’s Jeff Barr described that landmark number in vivid terms on the Amazon Web Services blog. “That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our ...

Data is transforming the world of business by enabling companies to find new efficiencies, gain new customer insights and enter new markets. However, all of this information comes at a cost. The ...