Cloud and object storage bring numerous benefits, such as massive scalability, flexibility and reduced cost of storage. But many – in fact, most – applications are just not written to take advantage ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., launched Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single management framework. Hitachi claims that the new HUS ...

Companies that were looking to store tens of petabytes of unstructured data previously had two main flavors of storage they could turn to: object storage and distributed file systems. Those two ...

At times, I get nostalgic for the good old days – a simpler time when the Olympics were in Beijing, WALL-E was the number one movie at the box office, the Phillies won the World Series, and the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...