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 ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Gary Ogasawara is Cloudian’s first CTO, responsible for setting the company’s long-term technology vision and direction. Before assuming this role, he was Cloudian’s founding engineering leader. Prior ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...

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 ...

It is this compatibility requirement that is the issue in the file/object debate. As the folks at Silicon Angle point out, 90% of all applications are designed to work with files using POSIX, and all ...

“The X-Files” creator Chris Carter says when it comes to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) being shot down over American airspace, the “truth is out there.” ITK caught up with Carter, who created the ...

Amazon S3 Files mounts any S3 bucket directly into an agent's local environment, giving AI agents native file system access to enterprise data without a separate storage layer. AWS says the ...

Developing apps for the Android platform allows you to handle various media types users have on mobile devices, including image files. With a few additions to the Java code for an Android app, you can ...