Amazon Web Service is launching a new web service tonight called S3 – which stands for “Simple Storage Service”. It is a storage service backend for developers that offers “a highly scalable, reliable ...

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 ...

You no doubt heard about the Amazon S3 outage that happened earlier this week. It was reported far and wide by media outlets who normally don’t delve into details of the technology supporting our ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

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Concept of Well Being. Keep It Simple on a light box. IBM announced new high-performance entry-level flash storage systems, as well as hybrid cloud and container-centric updates, in order to broaden ...

Amazon, IDrive, IBM, Google, NetApp and Wasabi offer some of the top enterprise data storage solutions. Explore their features and benefits, and find the right solution for your organization's needs.

When you need to access your documents quickly, but you don’t always have your desktop handy, cloud storage is a quick and convenient option. There are more than enough storage services available, and ...

Technology is awash with buzzwords, and one of the most used recently is cloud computing . It can be thought of as three layers, each built upon the layer below: Software as a Service (SaaS) providers ...

Sync.com is secure, offers synced storage for distribution across devices, and unsynced storage for pure backup. It’s also affordable for end users and business alike. Where online storage services ...