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Object Stores Starting to Look Like Databases

Don’t look now, but object stores – those vast repositories of data sitting behind an S3 API – are beginning to resemble databases. They’re obviously still separate categories today, but as the next-generation da Read more…

Where’s Your Data Now? Thoughts on World Backup Day

We’ll excuse you if you forgot that today is World Backup Day. You probably have a lot on your plate already. But we’d be remiss if we neglected to mark the occasion and discuss how companies can protect their most i Read more…

Cloudian, Splunk Unchain Compute, Storage

Splunk has decoupled the computing and storage layers of its architecture, providing a way for customers to scale storage independent from computing. The machine data analytics specialist working with storage partner Read more…

Cloud Looms Large for Big Data in 2020

If you’re involved with big data in 2020, then it will be hard to avoid the cloud, which has become the de-facto standard platform for storing and processing vast amounts of data. The cloud will change quickly this yea Read more…

Big Data Predictions: What 2020 Will Bring

With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It all starts today with what i Read more…

Object and Scale-Out File Systems Fill Hadoop Storage Void

The rapid growth of data and the changing nature of data applications is challenging established architectural concepts for how to store big data. Where once organizations may have first looked to large on-premise data l Read more…

Can On-Prem S3 Compete with HDFS for Analytic Workloads?

In the battle for big data storage supremacy, Hadoop is still in the running. It may no longer be the 800-lb gorilla, but the demonstrated scalability of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) makes it a potent conten Read more…

2018: A Big Data Year in Review

As 2018 comes to a close, it's worth taking some time to look back on the major events that occurred this year in the big data, data science, and AI space. There's a lot that occurred – and a lot that we chronicled in Read more…

Ransomware: Employing Object Storage to Defeat a Growing Threat

Ransomware attacks are dominating headlines. So far in 2018, high-profile attack victims have included the city of Atlanta, the city of Baltimore, Boeing and the Colorado Department of Transportation. In fact, the number Read more…

Cloudian Sees $94M for Object Funding

One of Cloudian's customers has 80 petabytes data under management on Cloudian's object storage software, which would qualify as "big data" in most people's dictionaries. Now the San Mateo, California company has another Read more…

This Just In

DataLine to Deploy Cloudian’s Object Storage Solution for VMware Cloud Providers

Mar 12, 2020 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., and MOSCOW, March 12, 2020 – Cloudian and DataLine announced that DataLine, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company in Russia, will deploy Cloudian’s object storage solution for VMware Cloud Providers. Read more…