GigaOm Radar for High-Performance Object Storage

For quite some time, users have been asking for object storage solutions with better performance characteristics. A growing number of applications find object storage to be a natural repository for their data because of its scalability and ease of access. However, older object stores were not designed for flash memory, nor were they optimized to deal with very small files.
At the moment, high-performance object stores do not really overlap with traditional object stores except for a limited set of use cases. This distinction will change over time because both traditional and high-performance object stores will eventually add the features necessary for parity. The products with the most balanced architecture and the ability to optimize for the latest media will end up in the leading positions
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