Object-based storage dispenses with the hierarchical file system, so there are no nested subfolders. Instead, it uses an indexed flatfile structure in which each object is given a unique ID.

Ceph is an open-source storage technology that provides object, block, and file storage in a single file system for unified storage. It was originally developed as a Ph.D. project at the ...

A file system is software that logically manages the storage ... and object-based access within Hadoop, eliminating the central metadata server and adding fault tolerance. Another open source ...

IBM Thursday introduced new storage ... open in terms of accessing those silos of data." The ability to work across multiple vendors' data stores is important, Zawistowski said. "IBM has its own ...