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 ...

Cloud storage is increasingly becoming a fundamental part of any modern organization's IT infrastructure. With growing data volumes and distributed operational models, businesses are looking to the ...

The 50 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the 2022 Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. Software is at the heart of storage.

When containers started out, they were meant to be ephemeral – stateless, disposable and data-light. But that’s all changed. As Gartner notes, use cases for containers have evolved to include ...

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Enterprise IT leaders face unprecedented challenges as they task their teams with deploying AI ...

Kubernetes is the most commonly used technology to deploy and orchestrate containerized workloads on distributed systems. However, Kubernetes is much more than container orchestration: It’s rapidly ...

As part of CRN’s 2024 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. The base of nearly any storage system is hardware. But ...