Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

There are three steps towards the next-generation data center. First is consolidation of the storage, computing and network resources into “pools” that can be allocated for any application. The second ...