Object storage emerged as a rival to file-access storage for large quantities of unstructured data when scale-out NAS file systems started to creak under the sheer number of files being stored.

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will ...

But data deduplication-which is deduplication at the level of individual disk blocks or “chunks” rather than entire files-can often give you a 20-to-1 reduction or better, depending on the ...