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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="section_objectstorage_features">
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<title>Features and benefits</title>
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<informaltable>
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Features</th>
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<th>Benefits</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Leverages commodity hardware</emphasis></td>
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<td>No lock-in, lower price/GB.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">HDD/node failure agnostic</emphasis></td>
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<td>Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects from
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failures.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Unlimited storage</emphasis></td>
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<td>Large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write
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access, able to serve content directly from storage system.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Multi-dimensional scalability</emphasis>
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</td>
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<td>Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and
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horizontally-distributed storage. Backs up and archives
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large amounts of data with linear performance.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Account/container/object structure</emphasis></td>
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<td>No nesting, not a traditional file system: Optimized
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for scale, it scales to multiple petabytes and billions of
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objects.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Built-in replication 3✕ +
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data redundancy (compared with 2✕ on RAID)</emphasis>
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</td>
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<td>A configurable number of accounts, containers and
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object copies for high availability.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Easily add capacity (unlike
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RAID resize)</emphasis></td>
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<td>Elastic data scaling with ease</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">No central database</emphasis></td>
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<td>Higher performance, no bottlenecks</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">RAID not required</emphasis></td>
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<td>Handle many small, random reads and writes efficiently</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Built-in management utilities</emphasis></td>
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<td>Account management: Create, add, verify, and delete
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users; Container management: Upload, download, and verify;
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Monitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and
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cluster health.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Drive auditing</emphasis></td>
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<td>Detect drive failures preempting data corruption</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Expiring objects</emphasis></td>
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<td>Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object
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to control access</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Direct object access</emphasis></td>
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<td>Enable direct browser access to content, such as for
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a control panel</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Realtime visibility into client
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requests</emphasis></td>
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<td>Know what users are requesting.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Supports S3 API</emphasis></td>
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<td>Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3
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API.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Restrict containers per
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account</emphasis></td>
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<td>Limit access to control usage by user.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Support for NetApp, Nexenta,
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SolidFire</emphasis></td>
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<td>Unified support for block volumes using a variety of
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storage systems.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Snapshot and backup API for
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block volumes</emphasis></td>
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<td>Data protection and recovery for VM data.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Standalone volume API
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available</emphasis></td>
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<td>Separate endpoint and API for integration with other
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compute systems.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><emphasis role="bold">Integration with
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Compute</emphasis></td>
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<td>Fully integrated with Compute for attaching block
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volumes and reporting on usage.</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</informaltable>
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</section>
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