Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody outside the engineering teams notices. I sat ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

A computer file is a self-contained resource for recording data in a digital storage device, that is available for computer programs to access. A filesystem refers to data structures and methods that ...

Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are ...

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 ...

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 ...