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 ...

In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

For IT professionals used to working with traditional file systems for their entire careers, object-based storage is like a whole new dimension they never knew existed. The concept of object storage ...

Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers ...

Object storage is vastly more scalable than traditional file system storage because it’s vastly simpler. Instead of organizing files in a directory hierarchy, object storage systems store files in a ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MinIO, a pioneer in high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage, today announced the global launch of the MinIO Subscription Network. Customers are now able ...

Quantum has long been involved in cold storage (object storage, tape and backup appliances), its high speed file system (StorNext) and intelligent NAS. With recent acquisition of CatDV media asset ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeeamON--Object First, the provider of Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box-Immutability), the ransomware-proof backup storage appliance purpose-built for Veeam ®, today announced a new ...