Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.

Accelerating digital transformation, edge computing, the proliferation of AI workloads and enterprise cloud adoption are ...

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 ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The most familiar file storage systems ...

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 ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...

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 ...