Object Storage, We Should Say S3 Storage, Reaches New Level
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 7th, 2024
Object storage had ups and downs since its early days, we all have in mind projects, initiatives or companies at the end of the 90's and beginning of 2000's with HTTP-based access that targeted archiving with a disk-based model.
Then, a wave of vendors, some new, and the official Amazon S3 launch in 2006 that triggered a real new era of storage with what we called more recently Software-Defined Storage (SDS), at least for the object side. Long story short, we invite you to check the timeline below, produced by Coldago Research. Readers probably also remember the article we wrote in 2019 named 'Object Storage Dead, S3 Eats Everything'.