The SNIA SMB3 Interoperability (IO) Lab will take place Monday, September 12 through Wednesday, September 14, 2022, co-located with the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in Fremont, CA.  The purpose of the IO Lab is for vendors to bring their implementations of SMB3 to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companie

With Amazon S3 celebrating its sixteenth birthday this year, it's easy to forget just how revolutionary it was at its release. S3's buckets and objects were profoundly different from the directories and files that developers had been manipulating through filesystem APIs. What drove this innovation, and how does cloud object storage actually work?