We recap the key attributes of file and block storage access and the pros and cons of object storage, a method that offers key benefits but also drawbacks compared with SAN and NAS.

LinkedIn today announced that it has open-sourced Ambry, a piece of software it built to store and serve up media files like photos, videos, and PDFs. The system is available on GitHub under an ...

We look at file vs object storage locking mechanisms, how different forms of storage ensure data consistency, and especially how object storage is tackling the challenge.

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution.

How to Open a VOB With Microsoft Media Player. VOB or Video Object files stored on a DVD contain a movie's content. If codecs are missing, Microsoft Media Player, or Windows Media Player, may not ...

“The markets for distributed file systems and object storage have merged,” Gartner analysts Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, and Jeff Vogel write in their October 19 report. “The ...

IDC on Wednesday said the worldwide market for file-based and object-based storage is gaining momentum, and that cloud vendors building their own object-based storage systems is driving this ...

This tells objcopy that our input file is in the "binary" format, that our output file should be in the "elf32-i386" format (object files on the x86). The --binary-architecture option tells objcopy ...