We look at unified file and object storage products from NetApp, Pure Storage and Scality, the differences, the workloads aimed at, and how unified they actually are.

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage.That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so ...

Cloud-native applications, which naturally consume and interact with object storage over the AWS S3 API, are on the rise. They accompany more traditional applications that rely on file system storage.

Let's say we have a file name data.txt that we want to embed in our executable: # cat data.txt Hello world To convert this into an object file that we can link with our program we just use objcopy to ...