Object Storage is the buzz of the storage industry and for good reason: it encompasses file, block, and object access portals into the same pool of raw object storage.
Compared to traditional file and block storage, object storage offers massive petabyte scalability and built-in availability. It’s a distributed design model that removed the potential of a single drive failure. Object storage nodes are combined to enable unlimited capacity and consistent access performance.
At Data Dynamics, we are very excited about the potential for object storage. In the recent release of StorageX 8.0, we unveiled new file-to-object conversion to support S3-compliance object storage. Based on feedback from our customers, file-to-object conversion was the number one requested new feature.
StorageX is the file management solution of choice for 6 of the 12 largest banks in the world. Large banks that actively manage petabytes of data rely on object storage for its massive scalability, availability and economies of scale. One of our customers, whose name we cannot reveal, was kind enough to share how they recently completed a 10 PB filesystem refresh using StorageX.
When measured across all our customers, the benefits delivered by StorageX are truly incredible:
- Reduce storage-related operational costs 50%
- Deploy new storage technology 66% faster
- Modernize applications for 10X productivity improvement
Data Dynamics is proud to work with all its technology partners who share our passion for object storage. We are witnessing a MAJOR shift in the storage industry and we are excited about the future potential of object storage.
