eBook About Object Storage Written by StorageFOUNDRY

storageFOUNDRY released its eBook titled Five Advantages of Using Object Storage.

It is a guide for IT managers and data center managers who want to examine the advantages of implementing an object storage system in their storage environment. There are a number of advantages to using an object storage system for storing data, including virtually unlimited storage space and lower maintenance costs, and the guide covers the top five advantages of using an object storage system:

Unlimited capacity to support storage elasticity. To support a cloud model, with object storage there is virtually no limit to the quantity of space available. cloud based object storage features a simple web interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
Performance scales as cluster grows. In an object storage cluster, performance scales linearly as more nodes are added: allowing IT administrators to add more storage when required with no additional compute overhead.
Eliminates need for cloud backup and recovery. Object storage allows businesses to replicate their data many times in a geo-distributed system, and there is no manual intervention recovery process.
Magnifies cost efficiency of cloud storage. Object storage is a better fit for cloud infrastructures than a file-based storage system since it provides near-infinite scalability and value by aligning the cost of storing data without requiring management overhead to manually move data.
Further migration of storage applications. In the area of data analytics, it is more efficient and economical to analyze the data in place rather than exporting the data to an analytics engine, and object storage makes this possible.

The eBook includes information about storageFOUNDRY ‘s main storage product, Nautilus. Powered by Ceph, it is a massively scalable, open-source, software-defined storage solution developed to provide object, block and file system storage in one self-managing, self-healing platform.

“The main advantages of using Nautilus is that it allows for relatively inexpensive, highly scalable and self-healing retention of massive amounts of unstructured data,” stated Laura Batstone, manager of support and project operations, storageFOUNDRY . “We believe that Nautilus is the best choice for businesses with diverse storage needs and explosive growth.“

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