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 ...

After a contentious license change and the removal of administrator functionalities from the console, the company behind the ...

In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Google Cloud Platform is a robust offering in the cloud space, with a myriad of cloud options, including object storage. While we love options of where the server is located, and the choice of ...

“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.

Object storage is vastly more scalable than traditional file system storage because it’s vastly simpler. Instead of organizing files in a directory hierarchy, object storage systems store files in a ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

The storage market is one to watch in 2017. While some traditional technologies – particularly the HDD and tape sectors – are under pressure, IDC predicts that a massive 44 zettabytes (44 trillion GB) ...