Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) is a modern software-defined object storage platform designed for both traditional and next-generation workloads that provides organizations with an on-premise alternative to public cloud solutions. Delivering remarkable scalability, flexibility and resiliency, ECS empowers organizations to capture, store, protect and manage unstructured data at a scale that matches the public cloud, all behind the enterprise firewall.
ECS features a flat, scale-out architecture and strong global consistency, enablingorganizations to lower total cost of ownership by nearly 60% over public cloud deployments. ECS makes it easy to manage globally distributed storage infrastructure under a single global namespace, providing users with anywhere access to critical business data. With ECS, any organization can achieve cloud-scale economics within their own data center.
Benefits of ECS include:
- Cloud scalability. A flexible, software-defined architecture promotes limitless scalability that supports both traditional and next-generation workloads.
- Flexible deployment. Dell EMC ECS can be deployed as an appliance or as a software-defined storage solution.
- Reduced TCO. ECS can dramatically lower total cost of ownership when compared to public cloud storage and traditional storage deployments. Low management overhead, smaller data center footprint and high storage utilization all help to reduce storage costs.
- Enterprise-grade technology. ECS offers data-at-rest encryption and encrypted inter-site replication traffic; reporting, policy-based and event-based record retention and platform hardening for SEC Rule 17a-4(f); authentication, authorization and access controls with Active Directory and LDAP; integration with monitoring and alerting infrastructure; and other enhanced enterprise capabilities such as multi-tenancy, capacity monitoring, alerting and multi-part uploads.