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 ...
Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...
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 ...
Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...
A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...