IBM is making a big play for bringing object storage technology to the cloud and to on-premise data centers with its planned acquisition of Cleversafe. IBM on Monday said it plans to acquire ...

In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more widely, in servers, services and the cloud. We find the company ...

'IBM has its own object store technology, and has added performance and new capabilities. But they haven't ignored everybody else's object stores. The data is already there. IBM is opening it all up,' ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.