Once upon a time, organizations stored structured data in relational -- or sometimes NoSQL -- databases, and unstructured data in object storage systems like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. This ...

Unstructured data is proliferating massively. It is growing in volume by more than 50% a year, and according to IDC, it will form 80% of all data by 2025 and does so already for some organisations.

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

High-performance computing (HPC) hinges on its ability to analyze and categorize large amounts of unstructured data. As the data explosion continues, enterprises are on the hunt for cost-effective ...