Object-based storage gets rid of traditional file system hierarchies and puts in place a flat access structure that provides a good basis for hugely scalable unstructured data access.

Hitachi Data Systems today debuted Content Intelligence, a new offering that adds a slew of enterprise search and analytic capabilities to its object-based file system. The new Hitachi Content ...

Drawbacks compared to file system-based approaches include that object storage has no locking mechanism, and that many existing applications cannot work as easily with it as they can with more ...

Gartner looked at two IBM products: IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Cloud Object Storage. IBM Spectrum Scale is based on General Parallel File System (GPFS), a distributed file system built by IBM ...

HDS's new midrange Hitachi Unified Storage system, which is similar to EMC's VNX array and NetApp's Fabric Attached Storage, can serve up both file- and block-based data through a single ...

HDS' new single-pool environment doesn't require fencing or some sort of clairvoyance as to where you're going to grow your data.

This article examines Sui’s object-centric data storage model, its implications for transaction processing, and its potential advantages over traditional account-based paradigms. The object ...