For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

Object and cloud storage technology developer Scality has worked with Microsoft to develop a new product for making Amazon Web Services S3-compatible storage work with the Azure Blob massively ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover emerging technologies with a focus on infrastructure and AI Object storage is one of the key building block services of ...

Software-defined storage vendor Cloudian is partnering with server vendor Lenovo to bring an object storage appliance compatible with Amazon’s S3 public cloud to the channel. San Mateo, Calif.-based ...

Object storage may not have been born in the cloud, but it was the major public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that have been its biggest drivers.