Object storage has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Indeed, it has become the foundation data storage layer for much of the cloud and for many of the very popular services that have ...

In a trio of announcements this week, independent object storage provider MinIO is making it possible to implement cloud-native storage without requiring its customers to know Kubernetes (K8s). And, ...

Each time a consumer saves a document to Dropbox they are using cloud object storage. Dropbox was first built on top of Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) S3 storage architecture. Meanwhile, Facebook users ...

Although disk and tape have historically been the go-to media types for backups, object storage is quickly becoming the preferred option to store backup data. Object storage-- especially, cloud-based ...

Storj Labs launched a new Tardigrade cloud object storage service to give businesses an alternative that spreads data across close to 6,000 nodes from independent operators in 85 countries. Storj ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The most familiar file storage systems ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

Cloud-native data storage startup MinIO Inc. is feeling flush today after closing on a $103 million round of funding that brings its valuation to $1 billion. The Series B round was led by a ...