Learn where Downloads, Drive, Android, and Linux files actually live, plus the shortcuts that make the Files app much faster.

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across ...

Over the last year, cloud storage services Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive—and probably others—have migrated from custom kernel extensions to Apple’s new-ish File Provider extension ...

Just because you delete a file on your computer doesn’t mean it’s gone, and that’s true for both older mechanical hard drives as well as solid-state drives and flash drives. Yet on the flip side, just ...

File backups can be useful in situations where your files become corrupted or inaccessible or when your local storage space on PCs or mobile devices eventually runs out. In such situations, you can ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup ...

The data storage industry has evolved significantly in the last three decades, but what has happened in the last 10 years has been another order of change entirely. The maturation of the cloud and the ...

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 ...