Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. Storage vendor Scality is riding the wave of the move towards Software Defined ...

Scality's software-defined storage RING allows customers to store and access billions of objects, or even petabyte-sized objects, across standard hardware. The company's proposition is that it can do ...

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 ...

If IT were a television show, it would be “Hoarders.” Organizations are creating and storing more and more data every day. According to research by IDC, by 2020 total data volumes will hit a ...

The GigaOm Radar for Object Storage is a comprehensive evaluation of enterprise object storage solutions, assessing 22 leading vendors on their ability to meet the evolving demands of modern data ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The most familiar file storage systems ...

Hitachi Data Systems Tuesday expanded the definition of "unified storage" with the introduction of a new platform for combining block, file, and object storage under a single management framework. HDS ...

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 criteria for data storage are scalability, security, permanence and availability. Making an acronym, we get PASS: Permanence means that no data is ever lost; Availability means that the ...

Kubernetes is the most commonly used technology to deploy and orchestrate containerized workloads on distributed systems. However, Kubernetes is much more than container orchestration: It’s rapidly ...