We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elastifile is developing a distributed file system that works with block, file and object storage and is optimized for all-flash storage solutions, Cohen said. "In the array world, people thought ...

Companies that were looking to store tens of petabytes of unstructured data previously had two main flavors of storage they could turn to: object storage and distributed file systems. Those two ...

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.

Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to block, file and object-based data through a single management interface. In addition, HDS announced an ...

All block, file, and object-access management is integrated and controlled within a new 3PAR StoreServ Management Console.