We recap the key attributes of file and block storage access and the pros and cons of object storage, a method that offers key benefits but also drawbacks compared with SAN and NAS.

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.

Object storage first hit the market about a decade ago, emerging in a landscape previously dominated by file storage. The two architectures have coexisted, and often competed, in the years since. In ...

“The markets for distributed file systems and object storage have merged,” Gartner analysts Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, and Jeff Vogel write in their October 19 report. “The ...

Increasing convergence of object and file storage for unstructured data Unified object and file storage solutions will be broadly adopted in the enterprise in 2021. Cloud-native applications, which ...