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 ...

With growing data volumes and distributed operational models, businesses are looking to the cloud to enhance their ...

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 ...

Storing data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Object storage in the cloud is one of the significant options for organizations looking for a more efficient solution to their growing digital and cloud transformation needs. Its search capabilities ...

Kubernetes is the most commonly used technology to deploy and orchestrate containerized workloads on distributed systems. However, Kubernetes is much more than container orchestration: It’s rapidly ...

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 ...

Cloud storage is increasingly sophisticated and flexible. The initial appeal of storing data in the cloud was flexibility and cost, and to achieve that, the majority of cloud services based their ...