We ask the key questions about file, block and object storage: how they work on-premise and in the cloud, global file systems, and file and object locking.

Unified file and object storage tackles growing volumes of unstructured data in a way that’s compatible with traditional and cloud-era applications, and friendlier to analytics.

By converging fast-file and fast-object under one platform, enterprises can rapidly restore information as fast as 270TB per hour, in the event of an attack, from an immutable backup copy of data.

HDS's new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) platform is based on a new version of its Command Suite, and it allows block-level, file-level, and object data to be stored on the same array and managed ...

Scality’s latest release, RING 5.0, allows enterprises to run multiple cloud storage workloads – files, objects and even Virtual Machine (VM) storage – either on-premises or as a service.

Quantum Corporation jumped head-first into the scale-out file and object storage market earlier this month with the announcement of its new Quantum Myriad all-flash storage solution.

High-performance storage solutions can prove bulky and expensive in the long run for businesses, while often being unable to meet all needs in one place. The deployment of two or more different ...

IDC forecast that worldwide revenue for file-based and object-based storage will reach $38 billion by 2017, a huge jump from the market's estimated $23-billion-plus revenue in 2013.

For the record: Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures such as file systems—which ...