The increasing demand for storage in remote data centers supports the growth of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets that are dependent upon on-line applications. This increasing demand is ...

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 ...

Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, ...

Keith: What prevents Veeam from just building their own hardware? Eric: Veeam is a software company. They support many ...

Digital storage is a key enabling technology for professional media and entertainment. As resolution and frame rates for content capture increase and as the number of cameras used increases for video ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

Amazon Web Services has increased the maximum object size it will store from five gigabytes to five terabytes. For Amazon Web Services (AWS), an object is a piece of data, file or group of files. AWS ...

As the acceptance and utility of learning management systems grows, so d'es the need to store their digital content. Waiting for the next advance in storage technology is not enough—storage management ...

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 ...