At Tigris we put your big data close to your compute so you don't have to do it yourself. However, there's been a small problem with that: most of the programs that are built to process that data such as AI training, document indexing, and other kinds of workloads expect to read data from a filesystem.
Not to mention, big data means big data. Bigger than ram. Bigger than your disk. Bigger than any one machine can have on any amount of disks. Sometimes even bigger than human minds can imagine. What if that data was as easy to access as your code folder, but had unlimited storage?