Cloud storage is increasingly sophisticated and flexible. The initial appeal of storing data in the cloud was flexibility and cost, and to achieve that, the majority of cloud services based their ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Cloud storage isn’t one-size-fits-all — the right choice depends on your data type, usage, and goals. From object storage for unstructured data to block storage for high-performance workloads, each ...

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 ...

Cloud storage offers flexibility, scalability, and cost savings, but selecting the right type—object, file, or block—requires analyzing data types, access patterns, and goals. Object storage excels ...

Digital Ocean today announced Spaces, its object storage service. This complements the company’s block storage service. Both of these services have different use cases, of course; unlike the block ...

Hitachi Data Systems Tuesday expanded the definition of "unified storage" with the introduction of a new platform for combining block, file, and object storage under a single management framework. HDS ...

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday expanded its HP 3PAR storage offering with a software change that provides unified block, file, and object storage capabilities on the same array. The company also expanded ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SoftNAS ®, the #1 best-selling software-defined cloud NAS, today announced the newest release of SoftNAS Cloud ® NAS with up to 400 percent faster cloud object storage ...