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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It is also multi modal – in the form of files and objects. The modern data era, which is complex and massive, demands Fast Object Storage and over the next couple years will demand fast file and fast ...

When combined with a fast data center network, a distributed object storage system will outperform legacy POSIX-compliant file system solutions, especially when addressing concurrent parallel ...