Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, ...

The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...

In previous articles, we have looked at an introduction to cloud databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), as well as various concepts and tools for managing OCI’s Database as a Service (DBAAS).

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 ...

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, ...

I know, I know. The reference in the title of this blog post, to the tag line from a 1970s Lipton Instant Soup commercial, dates me. But the memory came bubbling up from the deep storage in my brain ...

Want to get the most from your database? Then you probably already use Database Storage Engines. Now, Micron Technology, a leading storage company, has announced the first open-source, ...

Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform is now integrated and validated to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2022, a relational database management system that supports a wide variety of ...

Scality's software-defined storage RING allows customers to store and access billions of objects, or even petabyte-sized objects, across standard hardware. The company's proposition is that it can do ...