In this case study: A prominent Southeast Asian tech company, offering ride-hailing, food delivery, and financial services, serves millions of users across multiple countries. With an ever-expanding user base, the company needed a robust solution to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements while maintaining control over vast amounts of personal user data. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Company: Leading … Read More
What are the use cases where object storage really stands out vs the alternative block and file storage types? In my Sales Engineering role at Cloudian, I’ve helped hundreds of customers solve their storage challenges with object storage. Here are the ten most common object storage use cases I see today, plus ten more emerging … Read More
AWS Mountpoint for S3 enables direct, file-system-like access to S3-compatible storage While traditional object storage interfaces require specific S3 API calls for data access and manipulation, AWS Mountpoint simplifies this process by allowing standard Linux file operations to interact with object storage, thus bridging the gap between object storage and file-based applications. Just as important, … Read More
In the evolving landscape of enterprise storage, the distinction between scale-up and scale-out storage architectures remains a focal point. As organizations face exponential data growth, understanding the nuances of these architectures is crucial for efficient storage management and expansion. Storage capacity is the primary benchmark for evaluating storage devices, closely followed by the ease of … Read More
