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<!-- ... Old module003-ch002-features-benefits edited, renamed, and stored in doc/common for use by both Cloud Admin and Operator Training Guides... -->
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<title>Features and benefits</title>
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<para>
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<informaltable class="c19">
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Features</th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Benefits</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Leverages commodity
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hardware</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>No
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lock-in, lower
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price/GB</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>HDD/node failure agnostic</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects
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from failures</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Unlimited storage</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">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 rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Multi-dimensional scalability</emphasis>
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</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and
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horizontally-distributed storage Backs up and archives large amounts of data
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with linear performance</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold">Account/container/object
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structure</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">No nesting, not a traditional file
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system: Optimized for scale, it scales to multiple petabytes and
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billions of objects</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold">Built-in replication 3✕
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+ data redundancy (compared with 2✕ on RAID)</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">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 rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Easily add capacity (unlike
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RAID resize)</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Elastic
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data scaling with
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ease</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>No central database</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Higher
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performance, no
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bottlenecks</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>RAID not required</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Handle many small, random reads and writes
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efficiently</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Built-in management
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utilities</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Account management: Create, add, verify, and
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delete users; Container management: Upload, download, and verify;
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Monitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and cluster
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health</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Drive auditing</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Detect
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drive failures preempting data
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corruption</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Expiring objects</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Users
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can set an expiration time or a TTL on an
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object to control
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access</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Direct object access</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Enable
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direct browser access to content, such as for
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a control
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panel</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Realtime visibility into client
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requests</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Know
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what users are
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requesting</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Supports S3 API</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Utilize
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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 rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Restrict containers per
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account</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Limit
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access to control usage by
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user</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Support for NetApp, Nexenta,
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SolidFire</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Unified
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support for block volumes using a variety of
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storage
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systems</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Snapshot and backup API for block
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volumes</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Data
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protection and recovery for VM
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data</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Standalone volume API
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available</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"
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>Separate
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endpoint and API for integration with other
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compute
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systems</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><emphasis role="bold"
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>Integration with Compute</emphasis></td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">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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</para>
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</section>
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