Block level storage sales have gone through the roof as more businesses realize its flexibility. File level storage is still a better option when you just need a place to dump raw files. Learn ...

Block-level virtualization is a technique that allows multiple storage devices to be pooled and presented as a single logical unit, regardless of their physical location, capacity, or performance.

That said, block-level tiered storage is a cost-effective way to manage the active or near-active data set. George Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland , an analyst firm focused on the ...

Despite their differences, file-level and block-level virtualization share some common goals and benefits. Both types of virtualization aim to abstract the physical storage devices and provide a ...

To address this problem, this paper presents BLog, a block-level log-block management scheme for MLC NAND flash memory storage system. In BLog, with block-level management, the update pages of a data ...

(SMB might have “block” in its name, but it is a means of accessing the Windows file system, not a block-level storage abstraction.) Over time, NFS was extended with RDMA and GPUDirect support so data ...

In this paper we introduce SPEK (storage performance evaluation kernel module), a benchmarking tool for measuring and characterizing raw performance of data storage systems at block level. It can be ...

Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service.