The features you get in an object storage system are typically minimal. You can store, retrieve, copy, and delete files, as well as control which users can do which, and that’s about it.

Object storage systems can easily search for data without knowing specific filenames, dates or traditional file designations. They can also use the metadata to apply service-level agreements (SLAs ...

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 su ...

Object-based storage gets rid of traditional file system hierarchies and puts in place a flat access structure that provides a good basis for hugely scalable unstructured data access.