IT Press Tour: Amazon just made S3 a file system, but JuiceFS has been doing it for nine years

Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody ...
Computer Weekly

Unified file and object storage: Three suppliers and their approaches

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

IT Press Tour: Turing Award DNA at S3 prices - the tiny MIT spin-out whose file system beat Weka and Amazon at petabyte scale

Tucked into an office about 20 minutes west of Boston, sits a lean MIT spin-out that has quietly out-benchmarked some of the ...
techtimes

How Object Storage Differs From Traditional File Systems

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...
Computer Weekly

Five key points on file locking vs object locking

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...
The Next Platform

Australia’s NCI Adds Ceph Object Storage To Lustre File Systems

Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are ...
CRN

Pure Storage Adds Replication To FlashBlade File, Object Storage Platform

The addition of both file and object replication via the latest release of Pure Storage's Purity FB operating system is aimed at making the array more suitable for ...