Editor’s Note: Mike Karp is on vacation this week. In recent articles, Mike Karp has discussed the emergence of content addressed storage as outlined by EMC, and contrasted that to network-attach ...

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 ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...