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.

Unified file and object storage tackles growing volumes of unstructured data in a way that’s compatible with traditional and cloud-era applications, and friendlier to analytics.

By converging fast-file and fast-object under one platform, enterprises can rapidly restore information as fast as 270TB per hour, in the event of an attack, from an immutable backup copy of data.

IDC forecast that worldwide revenue for file-based and object-based storage will reach $38 billion by 2017, a huge jump from the market's estimated $23-billion-plus revenue in 2013.

To address this dilemma, Pure Storage Inc. introduced unified fast file and object, or UFFO, as a new category last year.

Starting with block storage, the start-up is looking to follow up with integrations for file and object, along with container-based systems, in due course. Source: Simplyblock Customers use the ...

HDS unveiled a new version of its Hitachi Command Suite software that manages file, block, and object storage across all the company's storage lines as a way for customers to more readily handle ...

Quantum Corporation jumped head-first into the scale-out file and object storage market earlier this month with the announcement of its new Quantum Myriad all-flash storage solution.

For the record: Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures such as file systems—which ...

Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in file ...