The features you get in an object storage system are typically minimal. You can store, retrieve, copy, and delete files, as well as control which users can do which, and that’s about it.

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.

While object storage is extremely scalable and easily accessible from any location, file storage is simple and ideal for file sharing and local archiving of smaller data volumes. As state and local ...

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 ...

Data is the key to business advantage in today’s market. We look at the unique potential of object storage to handle myriad data-intensive workloads while providing a single architecture across ...

Beyond Fast Object is Unified Fast File and Object. Fast file storage is nothing new but combining fast file and fast object in the same system, architecturally speaking, is groundbreaking and also ...

Garth Gibson, one of the developers of RAID, takes a look at the challenges of storage in large clusters and provides an overview of object-based storage architecture. Topics Spotlight: Advancing ...

eWEEK PRODUCT OVERVIEW & INSIGHT: Cloudian’s global data fabric architecture enables enterprises to store, find and protect object and file data seamlessly across sites, both on-premises and in ...

The mass adoption of object storage systems like Amazon S3 may appear to be a top achievement of the big data era, since we got essentially unlimited storage accessible through REST commands. But to ...

To understand where the storage industry is headed, and why the evolution of data storage matters, it’s important to look at how this space has changed.