“ #DataTsunami ” is a trite expression meant to convey to enterprise IT a sense or impending doom. If you as an IT executive fail to manage it, unnamed bad things will happen – like maybe you’ll drown? But the Tsunami is here and now and so too is enterprise IT. They keep their ships afloat—precisely because they’ve come up with the means to manage. One of those coping mechanisms is a technology called #ObjectStorage. IT deals with two general categories of data: structured and unstructured. Transactional data resides in a structured database while unstructured data—document and image files for example—are managed by file systems. Unstructured data volumes grow four to five times faster. Just after the turn of the present century it became apparent that enterprise storage arrays, straining to cope with the growth of unstructured data, would not be able to do two very essential things: scale to the capacities required while protecting from data lost due to equipment failure. #Objectstorage was created for large scale coupled with data resiliency and is used extensively in #hyperscale data centers ( #Amazon, #Google, #Facebook, etc.)
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