But, at root, all storage is categorised as either block, file or object, with those terms derived from how data is accessed in each mode. Fundamentally, the physical storage that data resides on ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so ...

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 ...

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.

Figure 1. A collection of objects within an object storage device form a flat file space. File structures are abstracted and access the objects via pointers. Today, these methods have reached a limit.

Think of object storage systems like a file system with no hierarchical structure of directories and subdirectories. Where a file system uses a combination of a directory structure and file name ...

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 ...

This enables object storage systems to scale to petabytes and beyond without limits on the number of files (objects), file size or file system capacity, such as the 2-terabyte restriction that is ...

By using object storage as an enabling layer, complemented by native file system and VM storage access, they can not only deliver storage at massive scale, but also provide high performance for a ...