When I met with Scality CEO Jerôme Lecat last week, he was at pains to ensure that Zenko – the company’s latest software product – wasn’t described as a storage gateway. Jerôme sees gateways as protocol conversion devices, which as we will discuss is definitely not what Zenko is about. So what is it exactly? … Read more »
Object storage is a relatively new market segment that has continued to grow steadily and is starting to find more reasons for adoption. For the uninitiated, object stores are used to hold large volumes of unstructured data, where each “object” is essentially a file with no specific format (also called a binary file). Object stores… Read more »
This post is the fourth in a series of independently written technical briefings on the AWS S3 API and how it has become the de-facto standard for object stores. The series is commissioned by Cloudian Inc. For more information on Cloudian and the company’s HyperStore object storage technology, please visit their site at: http://www.cloudian.com/ In previous posts… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
Around 2.5 years ago, I blogged about the release of new object-based hard disk drives from Seagate called Kinetic. The idea is that the drives don’t use traditional storage protocols like SAS and SATA, but instead store objects written and retrieved over Ethernet. Effectively each drive is a large key-value store that manages it’s own content. You PUT… Read more »
This post is the third of a series of independently written technical briefings on the AWS S3 API and how it has become the de-facto standard for object stores. The series is commissioned by Cloudian Inc. For more information on Cloudian and the company’s HyperStore object storage technology, please visit their site at: http://www.cloudian.com/ Webinar: Join me… Read more »
This post is the second of a series of independently written technical briefings on the AWS S3 API and how it has become the de-facto standard for object stores. The series is commissioned by Cloudian Inc. For more information on Cloudian and the company’s HyperStore object storage technology, please visit their site at: http://www.cloudian.com/ Webinar: Join me… Read more »
This post is the first of a series of independently written technical briefings on the AWS S3 API and how it has become the de-facto standard for object stores. The series is commissioned by Cloudian Inc. For more information on Cloudian and the company’s HyperStore object storage technology, please visit their site at: http://www.cloudian.com/ The… Read more »
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