That will take time. For example, Microsoft’s long-promised object-based file system, code-named Longhorn, will morph NTFS into an object database. But it won’t arrive until at least 2006 ...

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 ...

namely in their relationship to a file system. Object is cut from a different cloth altogether. Most of what we know about the way data is stored is based around the several decades-old concept of ...

“File provides a simple, tree-based directory model. However ... Combining file and object protocols into one storage system offers the benefits of efficiency, scale and hardware independence ...

Strengths: Red Hat has a proven commercial model for open source software ... Gartner said. Panasas' object-based file system architecture and distributed approach to erasure codes, means it ...

OneBlox is the industry's first scale-out object-based appliance that is accessible with Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) network protocols for organizations of ...

A file on HUS can grow to 256TB under a single name space versus 100TB on an AMS system. The HUS array line also supports object-based data – data stored with searchable metadata — through an ...

The legacy zone-based model is too rigid and ... which naturally consume and interact with object storage over the AWS S3 API, are on the rise. They accompany more traditional applications that rely ...

The acquisition of Cambridge, England-based PetaGene ... of the cunoFS file system, which Golub said will help his company offer distributed file storage as well as object storage.

A closer look at how Sui’s object ... linear type system ensures that once a resource is moved, it cannot be reused unless explicitly reassigned. The traditional account-based model as used ...