Object storage is the bedrock of cloud computing services. It’s the basis for services such as Dropbox, Facebook’s file system, and is the foundation Amazon’s S3 cloud storage; arguably the largest ...

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 ...

Performance has not always been a priority for object storage. Instead, object storage found its role in secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, and, although object storage is widely ...