The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, limitlessly scalable, perfectly elastic data store that takes away the burden of managing volumes of data. For all intents and ...

Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on ...

The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...

Supermicro's Paul McLeod, AMD's Shiva Gurumurthy, MinIO's Brenna Buuck and EDB's Simon Lightstone discuss the rise of data lakehouses with theCUBE.

We look at unstructured data, the myriad forms of data it comprises and the key storage options available, which include NAS and object storage on-prem and in the cloud.

Is object storage good for databases? We look at object storage vs block access SAN storage and ask if object storage can be used for database workloads, or is it just good for bulk storage of ...

Cloud object storage offers a different approach for data retention. Here’s a look at how it differs from on-premises and traditional cloud storage methods.

Object storage, as defined by San Antonio-based hybrid cloud provider Rackspace, doesn’t provide access to raw blocks of data or file-based access to data.

Object storage stores and manages data as discrete, self-contained units, and unlike traditional file or block storage, object storage provides unlimited scalability.