#EMC today launched #ElasticCloudStorage 2.2, making its object storage platform more mature as it prepares to take over use cases from EMC’s other object storageproducts, Atmos and Centera.
ECS is available as a software-only product or packaged on an appliance. The software is the #ViPRsoftware-defined storage data planeand the hardware is an x86 server.
EMC launched ECS in 2014 and brought out ECS 2.0 last May.
ECS 2.2 adds native NFS support to go with its previous support for #Amazon S3, #OpenStack Swift and #Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Native NFS support allows ECS to handle file storage without a file gateway. EMC also enhanced the search capabilities, claiming ECS can search metadata across exabytes of unstructured data without a dedicated database. For security, EMC added data at rest encryption.
“We feel ECS now has anything you might want from an object storage platform,” said Manuvir Das, senior vice president of EMC’s Advanced Software Division.
Das said the metadata search “opens up an Internet of Things use case. We have automotive customers storing telemetry data from vehicles. Those are small pieces of large volumes of data. They can throw that into scalable object storage and search the metadata.”
He said EMC has shipped more than an exabyte of ECS storage, mostly on hardware appliances. He said there are three main types of customers. Traditional enterprise shops are using ECS for a low-cost archive as well as storage used to develop new applications. Service providers use it to build object-based clouds to compete with popular public clouds, and content providers creating cloud apps deploy ECS for scalable storage.
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