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 ...

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 ...

The mass adoption of object storage systems like Amazon S3 may appear to be a top achievement of the big data era, since we got essentially unlimited storage accessible through REST commands. But to ...

Your data is growing faster than budgets, headcount, and rack space. Backup windows feel tight. Recovery targets keep ...

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 ...

For data lakes, this is a critical benefit of using object storage for large analytics projects as computing and storage resources can be scaled independently of one another.

Object storage in particular is expanding. In use cases such as data protection, media & entertainment, and storage as a service, object storage is gaining traction. This is leading to a healthy ...

Many companies choose to make a gradual shift to object storage, moving some archival workloads there while keeping important ready-access data sets closer to home.