Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody ...

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WekaIO™ (Weka) the leading data platform for modern applications, today announced that Weka has been recognized by Gartner as a Visionary with its placement in the ...

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataCore Software announced that it has been recognized in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage 1. “In the face of ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

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 ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

You may have forgotten about Zetera, a relatively new storage player recently mentioned in this column. In brief, the company invented a revolutionary storage architecture that eliminates controllers ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...