We ask the key questions about file, block and object storage: how they work on-premise and in the cloud, global file systems, and file and object locking.

File and block access via Posix is the way applications have been written forever, but they can’t access object storage in the same way – with file locking and other protections, for example.

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across ...

Virtual Storage Platform One solves these complexities with a single control plane, data fabric and data plane that works across block, file, object, cloud, mainframe and software-defined storage ...

Object storage and file storage have coexisted, and at times competed, with one another over the past decade. While object storage is extremely scalable and easily accessible from any location, file ...

Pure Storage is offering integrated block and file access on its FlashArrays, enabling improved use features. Avalanche Technology shows how MRAM and other storage technologies will enable data ...

Object storage, then and now Object storage was developed in the 1990s to handle data stores that were simply too large to be backed up with file and block storage, says Sinclair.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and ...

Google Cloud used today’s Spotlight on Storage event to unveil several new storage options for customers, including a new block storage offering called Hyperdisk, a new file store option for Google ...

PetaGene’s distributed file technology, combined with Storj’s distributed object storage tech and its distributed GPU capability target AI workloads.