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.

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.

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.

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.

Starting with block storage, the start-up is looking to follow up with integrations for file and object, along with container-based systems, in due course. Source: Simplyblock Customers use the ...

HDS unveiled a new version of its Hitachi Command Suite software that manages file, block, and object storage across all the company's storage lines as a way for customers to more readily handle ...

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 ...

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 ...