We dig into the different options available to store data locally on an android device, complete with sample source code.

We dig into the different options available to store data locally on an android device, complete with sample source code.

The question for organizations, then, is no longer whether they should store their massive collection of unstructured data in an object storage system (or a distributed file system), but rather, which ...

We recap the key attributes of file and block storage access and the pros and cons of object storage, a method that offers key benefits but also drawbacks compared with SAN and NAS.

That potentially makes data in object storage well-suited to analytics too. Object storage is also well-suited to web operations and cloud-native applications than file and block.

Research and development is focused on developing new means of data storage that are more dense and so can store greater amounts of data, and do so in a more energy efficient way.