Customers have been able to consolidate multiple file and object workloads on the FlashBlade platform. As a result, they benefit from reliability and performance, while simplifying their environment and saving on operational costs.
Igor is a Technical Director and Chief Architect on FlashBlade, an all-flash scale-out file and object storage system for modern applications. Igor's journey at Pure began in 2013, when he joined the engineering team that would develop FlashBlade from an idea to a market-leading product. Prior to Pure, Igor spent 7 years as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, driving efforts related to .NET, parallel programming, and AI.
Customers have been able to consolidate multiple file and object workloads on the FlashBlade platform. As a result, they benefit from reliability and performance, while simplifying their environment and saving on operational costs.
Part two of a three-part series focused on a key design decision for storage that can store both files and objects: How should a single unified design represent files, directories, objects, and buckets?
Files and Objects for Data Storage: Since files and objects are both important forms of data representation, supporting both in one system is an attractive goal. But deep differences between them make it an interesting challenge.