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 ...

IDC on Wednesday said the worldwide market for file-based and object-based storage is gaining momentum, and that cloud vendors building their own object-based storage systems is driving this market to ...

We’ve been hearing it for years—the looming concern that data is growing exponentially, fueled by the Internet of Things, data governance, 5G networks, and the like. But if some data is good, more ...

The first commercial object storage systems appeared around 2003, with EMC’s Centera family a good example. These were initially aimed at secure storage of documents in highly regulated environments, ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

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 ...

When it comes to deploying AI workloads, the pressure to keep up with data-hungry models has exposed a growing weakness in storage architecture. CoreWeave’s AI Object Storage directly addresses this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, ...

Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers ...

Scality's software-defined storage RING allows customers to store and access billions of objects, or even petabyte-sized objects, across standard hardware. The company's proposition is that it can do ...