File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so ...

But, at root, all storage is categorised as either block, file or object, with those terms derived from how data is accessed in each mode. Fundamentally, the physical storage that data resides on ...

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 ...

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 ...

A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in storage area networks (SANs) and RAID arrays and is known for faster ...

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across ...

By creating a common data plane across block, file and object storage, Hitachi Vantara said, it’s providing a way for enterprises to run different applications in any location, across on ...

“The DDN product portfolio is not all about object storage but it will soon be,” forecasted Leyden. We have a series of Block & File scale-out Storage platforms, we have Analytics ...

NAS accesses data as files, while a SAN stores data at the block level ... Cloud-based NAS uses file-based storage rather than the object storage cloud data is famous for, which drives costs ...

object storage, or even block storage, to an application. Whether it’s a NAS device from NetApp, Dell EMC, Qumulo, or Vast–whether it’s an Amazon S3 bucket or a Linux server configured as a storage ...