For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Brien Posey demonstrates Object Lock and other functionality for immutable storage on the AWS cloud, often used for compliance mandates and increasingly in conjunction with backup and recovery ...

Object storage is vastly more scalable than traditional file system storage because it’s vastly simpler. Instead of organizing files in a directory hierarchy, object storage systems store files in a ...

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The endless capacity of cloud object storage with Posix-compatible file access – that’s the promise of CunoFS, from Cambridge-based PetaGene, which aims to resolve the increasingly widespread ...

Despite the aggressive cost claims and dramatic scale improvements, AWS is positioning S3 Vectors as a complementary storage ...