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 ...

Brien Posey demonstrates Object Lock and other functionality for immutable storage on the AWS cloud, often used for compliance mandates and increasingly in conjunction with backup and recovery ...

Each time a consumer saves a document to Dropbox they are using cloud object storage. Dropbox was first built on top of Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) S3 storage architecture. Meanwhile, Facebook users ...

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MinIO Inc., developer of a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 service, today announced a version of its cloud storage service designed to ...

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 ...

QuObjects is the S3 object storage solution for QNAP NAS, boasting read/write speeds 20 times faster than conventional cloud services, along with a highly flexible and scalable architecture to ensure ...

Cloudian is expanding S3-based object storage for VMware shops that want to offer services for backup, archiving, disaster recovery, big data, containers, and software development. Cloudian today ...