A software routine that is part of the operating system or network control program which performs the storing/retrieving or transmitting/receiving of data. The access method is also responsible for ...

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 ...

AI inference is rapidly evolving to meet enterprise needs – becoming tiered, distributed and optimized for RAG, agentic, and generative AI. Storage is at the core of this transformation It’s a cliche ...

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 – but ...