Describing itself as a company focused on distributed file and object storage and multi-cloud data control, Scality has now produced its Zenko 1.0 to be a cloud-native multi-cloud data controller.
The company says that this release streamlines IT operations with major advancements in ease-of-deployment and operations for scale-out file and object storage and new 3-server configurations for HPE Apollo server platforms for a smaller, more affordable entry-point to scale-out software-defined storage.
The increasing density of tapes, combined with file and object storage architectures as well as ways to accelerate the reading and writing of data on tapes using flash memory caches are helping this technology to stay relevant as a component in an active archive environment.
For example, you could build a web application that allows users to upload files into an object storage service.
Traditionally, developers who wanted access to a standard file system over the kind of object storage and database options that Google already offered had to rig up a file server with a persistent disk.
We expect an interesting competition between object storage and file-based storage for many markets in 2018.
File transfers between sites and the object storage are also encrypted and take place over the HTTPS protocol.
EFS will take its place among Amazon's other file storage services, including S3 for object storage, Elastic Block Store for block storage and Glacier for archival storage.
Ceph is known for its capability to deliver object storage, block storage, and file storage in one unified platform that runs on commodity hardware.
Object storage will vie with file-based storage for many applications in 2018.
Roese also served on the board of directors of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and was deeply involved in bringing EMC fully into the OpenStack effort, including core contributions to Cinder (block storage), work in Swift (object storage) and helping launch the Manila (file storage) efforts.
