The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …
For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …
Object storage may not have been born in the cloud, but it was the major public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that have been its biggest drivers. …
The only companies that want – and expect – all compute and storage to move to the public cloud are those public clouds that do not have a compelling private cloud story to tell. …
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