Move over object and file storage; use of block storage in the public cloud is increasing as more businesses prepare to move or have already redeployed workloads to the cloud. Top 4 cloud block ...

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.

Object storage and file storage have coexisted, and at times competed, with one another over the past decade. While object storage is extremely scalable and easily accessible from any location, file ...

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 ...

With last week’s release of its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, they have completed the merge, the analyst group says. “The markets for distributed file systems ...

The UID is then used as both as a way to identify an object, as well as retrieve it. The UID is created by running the content of the file through a cryptographic algorithm, such as SHA-1.

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.

Acquisition can take advantage of object-based storage because the nature of the object is stored in the object metadata. This will ensure that the object is always stored in a manner suited to the ...

IDC forecast that worldwide revenue for file-based and object-based storage will reach $38 billion by 2017, a huge jump from the market's estimated $23-billion-plus revenue in 2013.

Hadoop ecosystem tools such as Apache SPARK are also able to access object storage through a Hadoop Compatible File System (HCFS). In fact, this is supported directly via the S3 protocol. Over time, ...