Everyone asks the same question: "Can object storage do files?" According to Scality CTO Giorgio Regni, that's the wrong question. In this episode of the Scale Out Podcast, Giorgio and Paul Speciale unpack more than a decade of lessons learned building file and object storage systems. They explain why file gateways became popular, why many hit scalability limits, and why there is no one-size-fits-all answer when combining POSIX and object storage.