Clouds and flash may sound like the description for a sudden summer thunderstorm, but they actually represent the two most disruptive forces in the enterprise storage business over the past 15 years.

Cloud storage is increasingly sophisticated and flexible. The initial appeal of storing data in the cloud was flexibility and cost, and to achieve that, the majority of cloud services based their ...

There is a perception among enterprise IT cloud storage users that, while cloud storage generally costs more than on-premises data center storage, the premium is worth the cost in terms of agility ...

While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s ...

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage platform S3 or Simple Storage Service today stores over 100 trillion objects. S3 was AWS' first generally available service that promised developers cheap ...

Brien Posey demonstrates Object Lock and other functionality for immutable storage on the AWS cloud, often used for compliance mandates and increasingly in conjunction with backup and recovery ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage offering is now available via AWS Dedicated Local Zones, one of its on-premise cloud offerings. AWS has launched two storage classes for Dedicated Local Zones - ...

AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, ...

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