If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

FastObjects .Net brings object-oriented database technology to the .Net environment. Given that the majority of .Net database applications employ RDBMSes on their back end, you might wonder if it ...

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MongoDB announced earlier today the acquisition of Realm, a lightweight database optimized for embedded for mobile device deployments. Realm, which was initially developed in the 2010 – 2014 timeframe ...

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, is releasing NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, a scalable, software-defined object storage solution designed for unstructured data, introducing new ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.