Storing data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block storage is used in ...

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Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

HPE announced the general availability of Release 3 of its HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, built on HPE Alletra Storage MP, marking a significant advancement in block storage technology. This release ...

‘With the NetApp all-flash SAN array, when we looked at introducing it, we recognized that over 20,000 customers already trust NetApp for their SAN workloads. And out of those, 5,000 customers are ...

Nvidia Corp. said today it has officially closed on the acquisition of high-performance software-defined block storage startup Excelero Inc. Founded in 2014 before exiting stealth three years later, ...

Cloud hosting company Scaleway is adding a new service today — block storage. Consumers will be able to purchase additional storage, attach that volume to a cloud instance and use it for a database, ...

Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without ...

HPE has launched what it’s calling “future of storage” with Alletra Storage MP, a new file storage offering and an expanded block storage service for its HPE GreenLake pay-per-use platform. Hewlett ...

Before block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage – for server data, for example – they’d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if ...

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 ...