As the world now knows, cloud computing – with its scale-up-and-down resources and pay-as-you-go model – is a flexible and cost-efficient way to deploy IT infrastructure, databases and applications, ...

Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...