That potentially makes data in object storage well-suited to analytics too. Object storage is also well-suited to web operations and cloud-native applications than file and block.

Customers currently are ramping up their investments in distributed file systems and object storage as they chase the growth of unstructured data, which is increasingly 30% annually, Gartner says.

We look at unified file and object storage products from NetApp, Pure Storage and Scality, the differences, the workloads aimed at, and how unified they actually are.

If this belongs in the Software Forum let me know and I'll move the post...Is there a way to disable the File System Object component for specific web sites but allow it for others? I suspect not ...

Gary Grider from LANL presented this talk at the Storage Developer Conference. "MarFS is a Near-POSIX File System using cloud storage for data and many POSIX file systems for metadata. Extreme HPC ...