As a result of this, a big portion of our job at Cloud-A is to play matchmaker and point users in the direction of existing third party software solutions that integrate with object storage. The biggest hurdle we see to adoption of our Bulk Storage product is an understanding of how exactly the technology can be used. We wanted to provide our followers with an overview of object storage technology and highlight some effective use cases.

Object storage offers basic functionality, allowing users to store, retrieve, copy, and delete files and most object storage systems provide a REST API that allows users to programmatically integrate with containers and objects.We have been seeing increasing demand for our object storage product, Bulk Storage over the past few months, which is exciting for us because we think that object storage is a phenomenal storage solution for many specific applications. Object storage requires less metadata than traditional file systems do to store and access files by grouping metadata with each object. Rather than organizing files in a directory, object storage stores files in a flat organization called containers, and unique identifiers or “keys” are used to retrieve them.

For organizations who prefer to keep their data within their own walls, and do not have in-house development talent or experience to build their own Swift deployment, SwiftStack provides a vendor supported, optimized and hardened solution for on-prem object storage solutions.

In addition to S3, OpenStack Swift is an open source project that allows organizations to build out their own object storage solutions - Swift is what Cloud-A Bulk Storage is built with.

Object Storage is an extremely simple yet scalable and reliable file storage system that has been made popular by Amazon’s S3 product, the world’s most recognized object storage deployment.

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