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 ...

Object storage is the bedrock of cloud computing services. It’s the basis for services such as Dropbox, Facebook’s file system, and is the foundation Amazon’s S3 cloud storage; arguably the largest ...

Far too often, conversations about enterprise storage focus on the on-prem storage vendors. Even in our multi-cloud world, we ask how NetApp and Dell Technologies integrate with the public cloud.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Cloud hosting company Scaleway is launching object storage in public beta. The company uses an Amazon S3-compatible API, which means you could easily replace your Amazon S3 bucket with a Scaleway ...

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Amazon’s Jeff Barr described that landmark number in vivid terms on the Amazon Web Services blog. “That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our ...