The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

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 ...

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 ...

At times, I get nostalgic for the good old days – a simpler time when the Olympics were in Beijing, WALL-E was the number one movie at the box office, the Phillies won the World Series, and the ...

Enterprise storage infrastructure provider Hitachi Vantura LLC today unveiled what it says is a single, hybrid cloud data platform that caters to both structured and unstructured information across ...

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup ...

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 ...

As part of CRN’s 2024 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. The base of nearly any storage system is hardware. But ...

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Store Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you ...