The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

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 ...

With growing data volumes and distributed operational models, businesses are looking to the cloud to enhance their operational agility and resilience. The advantages are obvious - cloud storage offers ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.