As the world now knows, cloud computing – with its scale-up-and-down resources and pay-as-you-go model – is a flexible and cost-efficient way to deploy IT infrastructure, databases and applications, ...

From the new AWS Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to expanding support for copying data to and from other clouds like Oracle and NetApp, here’s seven new AWS cloud storage offerings just launched. Some of the ...

IT managers face new storage challenges as companies generate growing volumes of unstructured data. Whether it’s high-res images, backup data, or IoT-generated information, this data needs to be ...

Performance has not always been a priority for object storage. Instead, object storage found its role in secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, and, although object storage is widely ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that we’re witnessing the rebirth of object storage. For years, object storage was perceived as a solution best suited to inexpensive backup, long-term archive, and massive ...

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 like a file ...

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 ...