With Amazon S3’s native search capabilities, users are limited only to searching the name of the object. Most people however, want to search by many things in addition to the name of the object. Specifically, they would like to be…
When private cloud object storage vendors first started appearing on the market, many of them were missing many core features. Some did not have any concept of enterprise access control, encryption or versioning, while others did not have multi-region support.…
If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise…
For 21 years SGI has been virtualizing primary disk with tape using DMF, their storage tier virtualization software. This solution creates a seamless fabric across multiple tiers of storage, ranging from high-speed flash-based storage on the front end down through…
This past week Storage Switzerland and other industry influencers joined Cleversafe, Data Direct Networks, Intel, Nexsan, Quantum, and Scality at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit in Florida. The first order of business was to try to explain what Object…