When it comes to cloud storage, not all storage systems work the same way. Two of the most widely used storage architectures ...

Object storage has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Indeed, it has become the foundation data storage layer for much of the cloud and for many of the very popular services that have ...

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 ...

The growth of the Cloud Object Storage Market is driven by the exponential rise in unstructured data, increasing adoption of cloud-based services, and the need for scalable, cost-effective storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a trio of announcements this week, independent object storage provider MinIO is making it possible to implement cloud-native storage without requiring its customers to know Kubernetes (K8s). And, ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...

This piece explores cloud and multi-cloud object storage and data management options recently announced by MinIO (with Snowflake), Commvault and Retrospect (part of StorCentric). Let’s see what these ...

Backblaze's B2 object-storage service competes with offerings from Amazon and other cloud providers. While B2 represents less than one-third of total revenue, it's growing 60% year over year.