If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

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) ...

'IBM has its own object store technology, and has added performance and new capabilities. But they haven't ignored everybody else's object stores. The data is already there. IBM is opening it all up,' ...