“Similar to the way products like Google Desktop simplify accessing a file on your PC, object storage systems, through the use of object IDs, simplify access to any piece of data without requiring you to know which physical storage device, file system or directory it's in.” -- Eric Slack
MUST READ: Object-based storage devices challenge file systems for unstructured data sets
TERMS TO KNOW: object ID, unstructured data, big data, big data management, big data analytics
