Tom Leyden, Director of Product Marketing with DataDirectNetworks, began his presentation for the Open Compute Summit with an arresting statement: “I am here to explain to you how a proprietary ...

Object storage systems remove the complexity and management costs associated with keeping an enterprise storage system in production-ready status. Object storage is based on a single, flat address ...

There’s a great buzz around object storage. Though the basic technology has been around since the 1990s, its popularity is only now starting to grow rapidly. Is object storage the right solution for ...

Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media ...

Object storage may not have been born in the cloud, but it was the major public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that have been its biggest drivers.

The growth of the Cloud Object Storage Market is driven by the exponential rise in unstructured data, increasing adoption of cloud-based services, and the need for scalable, cost-effective storage ...

Cloud services provider DigitalOcean today added scalable object storage to its product lineup. The company already offers software-defined block storage. But object storage has been “one of the most ...

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 recap the ...

Data is transforming the world of business by enabling companies to find new efficiencies, gain new customer insights and enter new markets. However, all of this information comes at a cost. The ...