A single environment across on-premise and cloud environments is possible with a new class of product that builds file systems and object stores with hybrid cloud.

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.

Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage include Dell, IBM, Qumulo, Pure Storage, Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Nutanix, Weka and Red Hat.

“The markets for distributed file systems and object storage have merged,” Gartner analysts Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, and Jeff Vogel write in their October 19 report. “The ...

The Cloud Community has moved towards erasure based object stores to gain scalability and durability using commodity hardware. The Object Interface works for new applications but legacy applications ...

VAST was recognised for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute with a “unified distributed file system and object storage software platform that has been designed for large-scale ...

Nutanix Unified Storage brings software-defined, server-based value to large-capacity file, object and block use cases that would typically require proprietary NAS and SAN systems.