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Do the object storage suppliers need to band together and collectively educate potential customers so that sales rise? Well, do they? The general perception at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit (NGOSS) in Los Angeles, March 4-5, was that people in general did not understand or appreciate what object storage could do …

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  1. Alan Sharkey

    Interesting analogy

    As a biker myself, I can see the parallels. We are a misunderstood community by the public - they see drugs, fights and loose women, we see an organisation helping charities, with freedom to enjoy the thrills (and spills) of our leisure time.

    As with Object Storage - I don't think the right message has got through to the buying public - they see a disparate collection of "something" which will probably do more harm than good. If a unified message could be got out with the real reasons why this is a good idea (and not just marketing babble), then OS can move forward. Anyone remember Cairo ?????

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    I thought this is an interview with Sage Weil...

    "These rebels need to find a cause, says the *Sage* of Storage"

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  3. Nate Amsden

    not much demand

    outside of very large service providers I think most of which do it themselves.

    A file system may not scale to a trillion objects, so intead have 50 or 100 file systems(on many arrays if required). file or block interfaces are much easier to integrate and manage as well. no need to modify apps or special tools to use them.

    if you are massive scale with custom apps then object storage makes sense but the # at that level is tiny(though the amount of storage that tiny # has is of course huge)

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      Re: not much demand

      How do you know that object stores are hard to manage? You seem to be making a lot of assumptions here . . .

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  4. M7S

    Biker Dentist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM

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    1. Alister
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      Re: Biker Dentist

      As soon as I read "Biker Dentist" that's what I thought of...

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Biker Dentist

      Beaten to it....

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