http://fosketts.disqus.com/enWed, 20 Apr 2011 10:27:50 -0000http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/04/19/granularity-challenge-storage-management/#comment-188223782<p>Indeed, Cofio is one of the companies working in this direction. It's worth looking into, folks!</p>sfoskettWed, 20 Apr 2011 10:27:50 -0000http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/04/19/granularity-challenge-storage-management/#comment-187868452<p>Steve, great points, and BTW, your idea for the platform that provides metadata for each file and manages from start to finish is the foundation of AIMstor Software. Unlike the ubiquitous dumb object storage people find in the cloud and in many products, the duality of file system plus objects, unified with many data protection tools provides the solution where things can be controlled granularly and broadly, end-to-end. Download at <a href="http://www.cofio.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.cofio.com">http://www.cofio.com</a> </p>Tony CerqueiraTue, 19 Apr 2011 16:16:04 -0000