However, this particular acquisition stands out because it validates distributed file systems as an increasingly important technology architecture and enterprise storage market segment.

Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), are primarily designed for large datasets and are often burdened by the metadata overhead when managing vast numbers of small files.

Gartner has established a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage due to the rapid growth of unstructured data. Here are the vendors that are leading the way.

[1] Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage,” Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel, October 1, 2021. Gartner Disclaimer ...

IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from ...

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

Nutanix Recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Vendor for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Recognition Showcases Company’s Strength in Unstructured Storage Solutions ...

There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

SaunaFS 5.0 is the industry's first on-premises distributed file system engineered for true exabyte scale, purpose-built to unlock the exceptional density and efficiency of Host-Managed Shingled ...