Virtualization began in the 1960s, but we can jump ahead several decades to the proliferation of desktop computing and enterprise applications. Applications then were monolithic. Each resided on its own physical server with an operating system and all executable components. This ensured that if an application crashed, it didn’t affect applications on other servers.
File- and block-based storage are well established, but a third alternative, object storage, is hardly new technology. Today, there are countless petabytes of object storage in public clouds, and hundreds of millions of Facebook, Google, and Twitter users routinely...
According to Wikipedia’s definition, “object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy and block storage which...