Published: 22 February 2019
Summary
IT leaders are looking for modern storage solutions to tackle the overwhelming growth of unstructured data. Technology product managers aiming to expand coverage of the unstructured-data market must include distributed file storage, along with object storage, in their storage portfolios.
Included in Full Research
- Growth of Modern Distributed File Systems
- Fundamental Difference Between a File System and an Object Store
- Object Storage = Object Store + Object Interface
- Scalability Differences Between File and Object Storage
- Erasure Coding Versus Traditional RAID
- Low Acquisition Cost Remains the Most Common Reason for Enterprises to Choose Object Storage in the On-Premises Data Center
- Most On-Premises Applications Still Depend on Traditional File Interfaces
- The Protocol Stack Must Also Be Scale-Out Implementation to Go With the Underlying Scale-Out Storage
- Performance Issues When Running File Workloads on Object Storage
- Distributed File Systems Versus Traditional NAS