Tag: Object Storage
Object Storage Ecosystem Grows While Standardizing and Consolidating, IDC Says
The object storage system landscape has changed dramatically in the past year thanks to consolidation of the players involved and technological standardization, IDC says in its latest report. Object-based storage syst Read more…
Hitachi Adds Enterprise Search to Object Store
Hitachi Data Systems today debuted Content Intelligence, a new offering that adds a slew of enterprise search and analytic capabilities to its object-based file system. The new Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) offer Read more…
Latest DDN Launch Fills out its WOS Object Storage Line
DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once mainly restricted to ‘cold’ ar Read more…
Huawei, Startup Collaborate on Big Data Object Storage
Chinese networking giant Huawei has collaborated with a University of California at Berkeley spinoff on a big data storage acceleration platform with the goals of boosting the performance of analytics and other applicati Read more…
Software-Defined Storage Takes Off As Big Data Gets Bigger
The ongoing explosion of data is forcing users to adapt their storage methodologies beyond traditional file- and block-level storage. Object stores and software-defined storage mechanisms, in particular, are quickly gain Read more…
How Object Storage and Information Dispersal Address Big Data Challenges
As unstructured data volumes continue to grow, more and more companies will reach the petabyte milestone and confront the challenges associated with managing very large storage environments. Storage technologies that can deliver massive scalability while ensuring reliability and availability are already emerging to meet their needs. Object storage and information dispersal are being adopted by leading-edge organizations for whom the delivery and analysis of large amounts of unstructured data is mission-critical. Read more…
Object Storage and the Unstructured Data Boom
This week we caught up with object storage evangelist, Tom Leyden, to talk about how unstructured data is becoming the prevalent data type at many large and data-driven organizations and how storage needs to evolve to meet these challenges.... Read more…
The Application Angle to Unstructured Data
This week, Tom Leyden from Amplidata broke the interview-as-marketing vehicle mold when he thoughtfully addressed what big data needs he’s hearing about, the shifting nature of applications, and the role of cloud models... Read more…
Big Unstructured Data and the Case for Optimized Object Storage
The world of data storage is marked by ongoing innovation, but major paradigm shifts in technology are much less frequent. A really major transition in storage paradigm hasn’t occurred since the introduction of network storage including Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) and technology, to augment Direct Attached Storage (DAS) technology in the 1990’s. Read more…