Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new tier of its S3 object storage service that is up to 10 times faster than the standard edition.

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that Amazon S3 customers are getting a new feature that improves visibility into object storage, delivering insights that can help them to discover anomalies, ...

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

Apps in the cloud each have their own requirements and sometimes need a different view of data in a dataset. For example, an ecommerce database might include personally identifiable information that ...

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 ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Backblaze's B2 object-storage service competes with offerings from Amazon and other cloud providers. While B2 represents less than one-third of total revenue, it's growing 60% year over year.

There’s a new object storage server that has been introduced as an open source alternative to Amazon S3 and other API-compatible services. Minio, written in Go and available under the Apache license, ...