Will open source storage make the hyperscale dream real?

Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as storage increasingly becomes software-defined storage, it is storage's turn. The darling of the open-source storage movement – though it is by no means the only viable and popular option – is Ceph. A unified storage platform originally …

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"For instance, even disk drive developers are getting connected. Seagate earlier this year open-sourced its Kinetic platform for developing Ethernet-connected hard drives that talk objects rather than files."

Drives speak blocks..not files.

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... did speak blocks, not files.