Object Storage

Targets companies in highly-regulated businesses required to keep non-rewritable, non-erasable records

Object storage prices have dropped 14 percent over the past 12 months.

Active Archive is a turnkey object storage system that enables businesses to easily store, retain, and use data

Pitches StorageGRID Webscale as single object storage platform to use across multiple data centers and cloud environments

Hoping to help customers conduct cloud-based proof of concept trials for object storage, Quantum (QTM) launched a new Lattus Demo Lab, located inside Switch SuperNAP data centers.

Amazon Web Services said today that its Simple Storage Service (S3) has now hit 2 billion objects. That works out to 20 objects for every human that has ever been born, according to Amazon's Jeff Barr.

Rackspace Hosting (RAX) is acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. The acquisition expands Rackspace’s big data play, allowing them to provide Open Cloud customers with demanding applications with a NoSQL DBaaS.