Block access storage – as deployed in storage-are network systems, for example – provides only the means to address blocks of storage from file systems, databases, and so on.

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage.That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so ...

Unified storage has traditionally allowed block-level (SAN) and file-level (NAS) storage protocols to be used simultaneously within a single appliance, thereby simplifying the management of the ...

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 ...

Storing data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in ...

Operating across cloud environments, data can be scaled vertically without performance deteriorating, and replicated where necessary on the block layer between clouds. Starting with block storage, the ...

By creating a common data plane across block, file and object storage, Hitachi Vantara said, it’s providing a way for enterprises to run different applications in any location, across on ...

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.

Block storage in the cloud that is not properly backed up can result in lost data, and while object storage in the cloud is more resilient, it pays to be careful.

With last week’s release of its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, they have completed the merge, the analyst group says. “The markets for distributed file systems ...