Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Object storage has surged in popularity, but file and block still have clearly defined uses. Access, metadata, and performance are among admins' key considerations. File, block and object storage are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We heard Azure BLOB Storage so many times. BLOB stands for Binary Large Object. But what is an "object" and what is a "binary object"? How does it differ from a file store? If you work in data ...

A utility to get a JS file object from a local file system path, when using Node together with a frontend client. This solves the lack of interoperability between Node's fs file system (which the ...