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 ...

Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple with the difficulties of managing increasingly ...

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Each time a consumer saves a document to Dropbox they are using cloud object storage. Dropbox was first built on top of Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) S3 storage architecture. Meanwhile, Facebook users ...

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 ...

For the past five years, industry analysts have been heralding tsunami-like growth in health care data. IDC projected, in 2013, that the volume of new data generated by health care information and ...