This article looks into a recent announcement on integrated block and file access for its FlashArray as well as recent blogs and a white paper from Avalanche Technology on storage and memory for data ...

Before block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage – for server data, for example – they’d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

Storing data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in ...

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Store Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you ...

The big news is Dell’s release of APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, which follows the release of Dell’s similar solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) back in May. This is a nice milestone along ...

The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

Nvidia Corp. said today it has officially closed on the acquisition of high-performance software-defined block storage startup Excelero Inc. Founded in 2014 before exiting stealth three years later, ...

Cloud storage is expensive (especially in this economy), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more ...