Cloudian Inc, a vendor of object storage solutions has recently announced the acquisition of Infinity Storage, a Milan-based developer of file systems and file storage technology. In December 2017, Cloudian announced the availability of HyperFile, a NAS controller addition to HyperStore, which we now know was based on Infinity Storage IP. Clearly, Cloudian saw a… Read more »
This is the fourth in a series of posts covering object storage requirements. Other posts in this series can be found at Object Storage Capabilities Series. Object stores are seen as the repository for large volumes of data, much of which can be inactive. As a result, performance is probably not top of the list of… Read more »
This is the third in a series of posts covering object storage requirements. Other posts in this series can be found at Object Storage Capabilities Series. Object stores are intended to store large volumes of data. Capacities are usually measured in hundreds of terabytes or petabytes rather than smaller units. As a result, an object… Read more »
I’ve followed Scality for a long time, through many previous presentations at Tech Field Days (see the further reading below) and at UK events too. I also recently presented at Scality SDS Day in London talking about the future of Software Defined Storage. So what is object storage and what do Scality do? Object Storage… Read more »
This is a series of posts covering critical features for object storage platforms and extends on this post from the beginning of 2017. Previous Posts Object Storage Essential Capabilities #1 – Scalability Protecting data in an object store represents different challenges to those for traditional storage. In block-based storage, for example, capacity reaches a level… Read more »
This week we’ve seen the announcement of 14TB 3.5” hard drives from one vendor and 12TB from another. It’s hard to imagine the concept of 14TB in a single hard drive when ten years ago we were looking at only 1TB devices. However, these devices have a problem. The throughput and latency has remained relatively… Read more »
This is a series of posts covering critical features for object storage platforms and extends on this post from the beginning of 2017. Object storage has been positioned as a platform for storing vast amounts of unstructured data, the main area in which we’re seeing significant industry growth. Systems need to have the capability to… Read more »
This week DigitalOcean introduced their own object storage platform called Spaces. Initially the service will only be available in the NYC3 data centre but is expected to be expanded to other locations over time. Build Your Own With so many object storage platforms already out there, do we need another? Well according to this blog… Read more »
Updated 15 March 2018 with new links Last week, Caringo, an object storage startup, announced that the company would offer full licences of up to 100TB to qualified companies in the Media and Entertainment sector. The assumption is, that once a company is hooked on the first 100TB and sees the simplicity of the solution,… Read more »
