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 ...

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 ...

DigitalOcean has become a popular cloud hosting provider over the years. But many customers have relied on third-party solutions, such as Amazon EBS, to host large sets of data. DigitalOcean is ...

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, ...

The big news is Dell’s release of APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, which follows the release of Dell’s similar solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) back in May. This is a nice milestone along ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...

‘It fulfills our vision to some extent of delivering a purpose-built cloud-native storage for all workloads. We are talking about workloads from traditional to modern cloud-native, from edge to cloud, ...

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 ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a pair of changes to its GreenLake Alletra MP block storage services, with a new program for on-premises users as well as support for Amazon Web Services. HPE ...

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 ...