Tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google have redefined IT for web-scale applications, leveraging standard servers and shared-nothing architectures to ensure maximum operational efficiency, ...

This article looks into a recent announcement on integrated block and file access for its FlashArray as well as recent blogs and a white paper from Avalanche Technology on storage and memory for data ...

Network Appliance’s acquisition of Spinnaker is the precursor to the mainstream adoption of distributed file systems in 2004 and 2005 as an alternative to single-file system architectures. At first ...

HPE announced the general availability of Release 3 of its HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, built on HPE Alletra Storage MP, marking a significant advancement in block storage technology. This release ...

Inspur released the AS5000G5 series of unified storage architecture products, which includes mid-range hybrid storage systems — AS5300G5, AS5500G5, AS5600G5, and AS5800G5, and mid-range all-flash ...

The open source distributed block storage system Ceph RBD started from an idea triggered by community feedback and was implemented through collaborative, iterative open source development. The ...

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 ...