“Data Tsunami” is a trite expression meant to convey to enterprise IT a sense or impending doom. If you as an IT executive fail to manage it, unnamed bad things will happen – like maybe you’ll drown?

Your business generates more and more information every day. So you need more and better storage. According to SINTEF—the largest research organisation in Scandinavia—90% of the world’s data was ...

Object storage is a fashionable topic, boosted by its massive scale-out capability and its related ability to handle very large amounts of unstructured data – object technology now underpins much ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

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 ...

In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

In higher education today, technology and learning go hand-in-hand. From online coursework, instructional videos, digital versions of textbooks and advanced research and analytics, technology has ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...