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.

Where things start to differ is how that basic bit-level information forms part of the bigger picture, and it’s here where the key differences between block, file and object storage emerge.

Nik Simpson, Storage Analyst for the Burton Group, begins a series of questions and answers about virtualization and how it relates to storage.