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There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data. In October, ...

Object storage, based on Amazon’s S3 – pretty much a de facto standard now – is set to go mainstream. That’s the view of Cloudian’s co-founder and CEO Michael Tso. He says it’ll be, “The next NFS”, ...

French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards? The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle ...

There are lots of scale-out, parallel file systems about, from those of the big six array makers such as NetApp’s clustered Ontap and EMC’s Isilon OneFS to the open source and distributions thereof ...

LTFS – the Linear Tape File System – seemed like a great idea when it emerged but not many storage vendors seem to have made much of it. It puts a file system on top of a tape library and turns it ...

Software runs the world, open source is eating the world, software-defined infrastructure control runs the planet's liquid core and so, therefore, software-defined storage management forms part of ...

It has been an interesting month in object storage, with developments that push the technology along but also provided an interesting footnote regarding file access that illustrate an interesting ...

When Spectra Logic launched its DPE archive-class NAS in September it was a play at a space often targeted now by object storage products. So, I asked whether Spectra Logic had considered object ...

SUSE has announced its Enterprise Storage 2 product. This is the latest version of its self-managing, self-healing, distributed software-based storage solution for enterprise. It is the first (and ...

All-flash array maker SolidFire plans to apply the speed of flash to object storage. So said CEO Dave Wright this week. We were discussing the prospects for the all-flash datacentre, following ...

In storage one of the key fault lines we see is between vendors keen to ensure it's their product that builds in the intelligence needed for storage or storage-related operations to take place. I ...

This week sees the arrival of OpenStack Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software for building public, private and hybrid clouds.