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 ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

In this video from the Storage Developer Conference, Gary Grider from LANL presents: MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage. “Many computing sites need ...

The addition of both file and object replication via the latest release of Pure Storage's Purity FB operating system is aimed at making the array more suitable for ...

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 ...

Though the feature wasn’t mentioned in Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote, I’m most excited about the introduction of the Apple File System, or APFS. The preliminary version of the developer documentation is ...