A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the ...

Object storage is a fashionable topic, boosted by its massive scale-out capability and its related ability to handle very large amounts of unstructured data – object technology now underpins ...

But, at root, all storage is categorised as either block, file or object, with those terms derived from how data is accessed in each mode. Fundamentally, the physical storage that data resides on ...