“Data Tsunami” is a trite expression meant to convey to enterprise IT a sense or impending doom. If you as an IT executive fail to manage it, unnamed bad things will happen – like maybe you’ll drown?

While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s ...

For IT professionals used to working with traditional file systems for their entire careers, object-based storage is like a whole new dimension they never knew existed. The concept of object storage ...

There’s a great buzz around object storage. Though the basic technology has been around since the 1990s, its popularity is only now starting to grow rapidly. Is object storage the right solution for ...

IDC on Wednesday said the worldwide market for file-based and object-based storage is gaining momentum, and that cloud vendors building their own object-based storage systems is driving this market to ...

Since ransomware attacks work by encrypting or exfiltrating sensitive data, often paralyzing entire systems, ransomware-proof storage solutions, such as immutable backups and air-gapped storage, ...

Gary Ogasawara is Cloudian’s first CTO, responsible for setting the company’s long-term technology vision and direction. Before assuming this role, he was Cloudian’s founding engineering leader. Prior ...

Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, for years, the storage area network (SAN) seemed to prevail for high-end, performance-tailored storage, ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Linux cluster computing has transformed the architecture of high-performance computing applications. High-cost supercomputers are being replaced by low-cost Linux clusters to solve the most ...