We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at.

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

File and block access via Posix is the way applications have been written forever, but they can’t access object storage in the same way – with file locking and other protections, for example.

Storage architecture influences the ability to gather metadata. Whereas file and block systems do not enable application or user-defined extended attributes, object storage systems offer unique ways ...

Virtual Storage Platform One solves these complexities with a single control plane, data fabric and data plane that works across block, file, object, cloud, mainframe and software-defined storage ...

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic ...

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 ...

The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, limitlessly scalable, perfectly elastic data store that takes away the burden of managing volumes of data. For all intents and ...

HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced it was named a Leader for the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms.