Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

When containers started out, they were meant to be ephemeral – stateless, disposable and data-light. But that’s all changed. As Gartner notes, use cases for containers have evolved to include ...

Gary Ogasawara is Cloudian’s first CTO, responsible for setting the company’s long-term technology vision and direction. Before assuming this role, he was Cloudian’s founding engineering leader. Prior ...

Enterprise storage infrastructure provider Hitachi Vantura LLC today unveiled what it says is a single, hybrid cloud data platform that caters to both structured and unstructured information across ...

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 ...

One of the most common use cases for public IaaS cloud computing is storage and that’s for good reason: Instead of buying hardware and managing it, users simply upload data to the cloud and pay for ...

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...

Storing data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup ...