Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...

There’s a great buzz around object storage. Though the basic technology has been around since the 1990s, its popularity is only now starting to grow rapidly. Is object storage the right solution 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 ...

Object storage, data lakes, and Edge computing will play a big part in shaping the future of unstructured data storage and AI The data deluge is here, and according to IDC, 80 percent of it is ...

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, ...

Today’s “left-over” data can be the basis of tomorrow’s breakthrough. As we keep data for longer and try harder to share and re-use data, it becomes critical that data is accurately catalogued and ...

Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, for years, the storage area network (SAN) seemed to prevail for high-end, performance-tailored storage, ...