Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

I just finished reading an intriguing blog post by Alex Williams at Silicon Angle, responding to an earlier blog by Fred Wilson. The substance of the debate boils down to whether or not the concept of ...

IT shops used to buy SANs for block storage, NAS for file storage and cloud gateways for object storage. Now they can buy software-defined storage products that support all block, file and object ...

Cohesity is making a play to protect and manage data traditionally stored on NAS systems with its new SmartFiles, which pulls files and objects into its DataPlatform. By migrating files from NAS ...