Cloud Object Storage

The explosive growth of data shows no signs of slowing, forcing companies of all sizes to look for new, more efficient storage strategies. The right storage solutions must not only store data cost efficiently, but make it easily available for mobile, Cloud and information-based applications that access and analyze the data to provide valuable insight and deliver competitive advantage. 

As Dell Technologies Cloud services evolved over the past decade, many organizations turned to storage in Cloud offerings to satisfy their data storage requirements. But these public Cloud solutions inevitably required enterprises to accept trade-offs in data residency, compliance and latency while also adding unforeseen costs. And because most enterprises have adopted multiple Cloud infrastructure, the task of managing these disparate multi-cloud storage solutions has introduced considerable cost and complexity that threatens to limit productivity and innovation.

To meet the demands of business requirements while navigating digital transformation, enterprises need storage solutions that offer the flexibility and scalability of Cloud solutions with the reliability and control of private Cloud infrastructure. That’s where Dell EMC ECS can help.

Dell EMC ECS is the leading object storage platform. ECS provides a flat, scale-out architecture with strong global consistency that helps enterprises achieve the near infinite scale of the public Cloud at a nearly 60% lower total cost of ownership (TCO). ECS also offers deep multiprotocol support, including object, file and HDFS, with advanced data integrity, protection and security capabilities.

With ECS, organizations can:

• Streamline object storage while meeting any capacity requirements, protecting data and managing Cloud object storage and hybrid Cloud storage with ease. 
• Gain new insights, locating data faster than ever before and getting a deeper look into system health. 
• Build next-generation solutions, leveraging the versatility and scale of ECS to empower modern app development and to extract more value from deep archives.

Features of Dell EMC ECS solutions include:

• Comprehensive protocol support for unstructured object and file workloads on a single modern storage platform.
• Tools to manage globally distributed storage infrastructure under a single global namespace with anywhere access to content.
• A flexible software-defined architecture that promotes limitless scalability with layers that are completely abstracted and independently scalable with no single point of failure.
• Security and compliance capabilities that support GDPR compliance and protection modes for litigation hold as well as SEC 17 a-4(f).
• Available as a software-only solution or as a fully integrated, turnkey appliance bundling software and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

What is Cloud storage?

Cloud storage is a technology for storing business data that involves transmitting data via the internet to remote storage systems, where it is stored, managed, backed up and made accessible to users via the internet as well. In Cloud storage, data may reside on distributed storage servers that are managed by third parties, or on servers within the company’s own data center, or both.

What is Cloud object storage?

Cloud object storage is a technology for storing unstructured data in the Cloud. Object storage manages data as objects rather than as files within a hierarchical system. An object contains data, metadata and a unique global identifier, which enables the data to be found in a distributed system. Objects may be stored in multiple data centers located anywhere in the world.

What are the benefits of Cloud object storage?

Object storage offers massive scalability, is easily accessible via common APIs, and can use a namespace, which may span multiple instances of physical hardware. As a result, object storage is ideal for Cloud infrastructure, allowing data administrators to abandon the complex and antiquated file systems in favor of a flat address space. Cloud object storage enables the automatic routing of data to the right storage systems, specifies the content lifecycle and keeps both active and archived data in a single tier with the appropriate protection level. Additionally, object storage is designed to run at peak efficiency on commodity server hardware.