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 ...

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.

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 ...

A single, versatile object storage architecture As we can see, the cloud-native model, powered by object storage, is fundamentally transforming the ways IT teams manage data and its underlying ...

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 ...

Object storage systems designed to service multi-tenant use cases make it simple to securely manage tenant data from within a single scalable, AWS S3-compatible interface. Sustained throughput ...

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.

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost ...

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Kubernetes-native object storage with MinIO. With all of this in mind, we saw a design opportunity to move MinIO inside the Kubernetes framework to simplify and automate provisioning, securing ...