<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4214" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Swarm-8.png?resize=300%2C205&ssl=1" alt="Swarm 8 is Here" width="300" height="205" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Swarm-8.png?resize=300%2C205&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Swarm-8.png?w=546&ssl=1 546w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />When we founded Caringo over a decade ago, the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hard drive was 750 GB</a>, YouTube had just launched, the term ‘Cloud’ was used to describe weather and just storing and protecting millions of files was considered “next gen.” Fast forward 10 years to today, and 10 TB drives are here, a staggering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">4 billion YouTube videos</a> are viewed every day, your grandma knows how to store data in “the cloud,” and even small organizations need to store, protect, organize and search billions of files. I stress the term need to because solving these issues is still a challenge for most, until today.
Today, we’ve consolidated a decade of experience and expertise to launch <a href="https://www.caringo.com/swarm-overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Swarm 8</a>—searchable storage for the cloud age—combining the ease of management and economics of cloud infrastructure with organization and search at scale. You no longer need to migrate data into disparate solutions for long-term preservation, delivery and analysis. Consolidate all files on Swarm, find the data you are looking for quickly, and reduce total cost of ownership by continuously evolving hardware and optimizing use of your resources.
So why is this important? Because forward-thinking businesses understand that the relationships between data and keeping content accessible and instantly searchable increase profit and agility. Said another way, if you can keep your data online, organize it and search it, you can continue to extract value from it. In the information age, those that can leverage their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">long tail</a> data will not only succeed, they will reap benefits orders of magnitude greater than those constrained by limits in traditional technologies.
This isn’t a new idea for us. It was what drove our original vision of changing the economics of storage. Even a decade ago, we knew the cost curve of storage wasn’t in line with what was needed to extract the value of data stored. And this cost curve becomes crippling at tens of millions of files…let alone billions of files. So we decided to change the cost curve and bring what was once attainable by only a few web-scale organizations with hundreds of developers to every organization.
Whether you are an IT admin tasked with delivering services internally or a developer tasked with enabling web apps for millions of users, Swarm 8 will help you achieve and exceed your business objectives. Here is a brief list of what’s new. This in no way encompasses all of the features in Swarm 8. These are just the highlights:
<ul>
<li>Dynamic insight and organization at massive scale. Gain robust insight and view relationships between objects through ad hoc search and query of object attributes or custom metadata.</li>
<li>Rapid file use case development. Object versioning and object renaming dramatically reduce the development effort of integrating <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/object-storage-keeping-velocity-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">object storage</a> with file system-based applications and interfaces.</li>
<li>All-inclusive, no-surprise pricing. Swarm 8 comes standard with ALL functionality enabled. This includes unique Swarm features like Darkive™ adaptive power conservation, WORM, Integrity Seals, Legal Hold, multi-tenancy (for public/hybrid/private) cloud deployment, and Search.</li>
<li>Flexible deployment to meet any operational business requirements. Swarm 8 is available as software you run in your own data center(s), as a service in any of the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/swarm-brings-amazon-s3-compatibility-microsoft-azure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Microsoft Azure</a> globally distributed data centers or as a fully managed service within <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/bt-compute-storage-is-powered-by-caringo-swarm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BT</a> or <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/telefonica-calls-on-caringo-swarm-for-future-proof-cloud-storage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Telefónica’s</a> globally distributed data centers.</li>
</ul>
If you want to learn more, or want to ask our product experts questions, register for one of our upcoming Swarm 8 webinars:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4951425587571898881" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">February 18, 9 AM PST, 11 AM CST, Noon ET</a></li>
<li><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9005998959809844993" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March 1, 9 AM PST, 11 AM CST, Noon ET</a> 
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<li><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2376909215638055937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March 3, 10 AM GMT</a></li>
</ul>

Consolidate your files on Swarm and get instant access to your data. Caringo Swarm 8 is searchable storage for the cloud age.

With a rare understanding of technology, customers and business, Jonathan Ring brings over 33 years of experience to Caringo. Prior to founding Caringo, Jonathan was an active angel investor and VC investing and advising in a broad range of companies. Jonathan has run multinational distributed development groups, small R&amp;D teams and huge divisions at industry giants.

Jonathan Ring

Caringo uses Amazon S3 protocol for seamless policy-based tiering of data from primary storage to private Swarm cloud to public cloud.

Amazon S3

Caringo Swarm Object Storage provides an active archive (limitless & seamless pool of data) with data protection, management and search capabilities.

Cloud Architecture

Object-based storage (e.g., Amazon S3-compliant Caringo Swarm Object Storage) is the basis for all Cloud Storage⏤private, public or hybrid).

Cloud Storage

Caringo Swarm Object Storage can be used as part of a hybrid cloud solution Amazon S3-compliant cloud services such as Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure

Object storage (object-based storage) is computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to file storage & block storage.

Object Storage

Software-defined storage (SDS) is data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data, independent of underlying hardware. 

Software Defined Storage

Swarm Storage provides a complete S3-compliant platform for data protection, management, organization & search at massive scale for unstructured data.

Swarm Storage

Search, Organization and Data Management in the Cloud Age

This article was originally published on <a title="Go to original article" href="http://tech.co/stop-floating-in-a-public-cloud-build-a-private-one-2016-06" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tech.co</a>.
<a title="View Image" href="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/adobe-creative-cloud.jpg?ssl=1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5233 alignright" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/adobe-creative-cloud.jpg?w=300&ssl=1" alt="Hand on mouse" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a>Dropbox’s decision <a class="editor-link editor_tip" title="" href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3044261/cloud-computing/dropbox-quits-amazon-aws-s3-itbwcw.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to migrate most of its customer data storage</a> from Amazon Web Services to a homegrown, in-house solution has shined some high-profile light on the benefits of “privatizing” your cloud storage.
Code-named “Magic Pocket,” Dropbox’s initiative moved 90 percent of its users’ data onto its own made-to-order platform — a sharp departure from the company’s eight-year reliance on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service cloud.
While scalability, instant provisioning, virtualized resources, and the pay-as-you-go economics are well-known benefits of cloud storage, Dropbox’s example raises considerations that businesses must think about for the sake of security, reliability, flexibility, regulatory compliance, cost-effectiveness, and additional growth.
Is the public cloud, where the enterprise buys a slice of a larger cloud storage pie, adequate for your organization’s needs? Or is it time to consider a private cloud solution, offering dedicated hardware, storage, and networking in a single-tenant environment?
Going Private 
Data creation is booming. More data <a class="editor-link editor_tip" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/09/30/big-data-20-mind-boggling-facts-everyone-must-read/#1b743a016c1d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has been created since 2013</a> than in all previous human history combined. Experts predict that in four years, we’ll be creating over six gigabytes of data every hour for every person on earth.
Meanwhile, businesses aren’t making the most of the data they have: Only about half a percent of it is ever analyzed. And for a Fortune 1000 company, <a class="editor-link editor_tip" href="http://www.baselinemag.com/analytics-big-data/slideshows/surprising-statistics-about-big-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">boosting access to data by just 10 percent</a> could add $65 million to the top line. Moving your company’s data to a private cloud environment can both facilitate analysis and ease access. Here are three reasons you might want to move to a private cloud solution:
Data security and regulatory compliance are important to your business. You’ll have more direct control over your own data — and that of your customers and users. This is particularly important in the healthcare, financial, and legal services sectors, as well as in law enforcement and government organizations.
You require more flexibility to work with your data. Dropbox’s migration will also allow it to move from a block storage model to object storage. This <a class="editor-link editor_tip" href="http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/feature/How-an-object-store-differs-from-file-and-block-storage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">model for data storage</a> offers benefits in automation and management of data storage, use of metadata, scalability, energy efficiency, and more — benefits not so readily available in a public cloud environment.
Data analysis and re-use is part of your long-term strategy. Your data will outlive the hardware it’s stored on and the applications accessing it. Do you want to pay to store information in a public cloud, or would you rather store it in-house to save on costs and leverage adaptive power conservation technology?
If you ignore the long-range needs of your organization, you are likely to end up with a storage architecture that limits keeping and using your data long-term. However, with the right solution for your company, your data store will long outlive your hardware and your applications. That data will be viable for re-use and analysis for decades to come.
Creating Your Own Cloud 
Once you’ve decided it’s time to make a transition to a private cloud, you’ve already partially completed the first of these four steps:
<ol>
<li>Identify the use-case requirements. This is what brought you to the decision in the first place. Flesh it out, because your requirements play directly into step No. 2.</li>
<li>Consult a storage expert. Get help evaluating options from experienced storage system architects or value-added resellers with experience implementing private cloud storage for clients with use-case requirements similar to yours.</li>
<li>Do a proof-of-concept. Credible vendors will let you test the solution to ensure it works with your data center or across your distributed environments. Take advantage of this to ensure all issues are addressed before you commit to the new strategy. If the vendor refuses, it may be a sign the product does not have the scale you need and that the company is not willing to commit engineering resources to assist you during your implementation.</li>
<li>Plan for growth. The market for public and private cloud storage is expected to more than triple between 2014 and 2019. Look for a solution that enables you to continuously evolve hardware while guaranteeing the integrity of data — allowing you to store massive amounts of data for decades.</li>
</ol>
The benefits of cloud storage are amplified by moving from a public to a private solution. Clearly visualizing your long-term business requirements and designing your storage to support those requirements are key to capitalizing on the growing cache of data under your control.

Is the public cloud, where the enterprise buys a slice of a larger cloud storage pie, adequate for your organization’s needs? Or is it time to consider a private cloud solution?

Stop Floating in a Public Cloud: Build a Private One

This article was originally published on <a title="Go to original article" href="http://linux.sys-con.com/node/3930199" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linux CloudExpo Journal</a>.
<img class="size-medium wp-image-5233 alignright" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Thumbnail_Images_May_JRing.png" alt="Bid Date Cloud Servers Isle" width="300" />Bridging the divide between legacy storage and new data management platforms could constrain IT organizations and budgets and could prevent the utilization of cost-effective scalable storage infrastructures. But, businesses can avoid some of these constraints by evaluating their storage options objectively and asking themselves three important questions.
A decade ago, we were putting 250-gigabyte drives into servers. When people mentioned the cloud, they were talking about the weather, and a business was considered to be on the cutting edge if it needed to store a few million files.
Now, we have access to 10-terabyte drives, and grandparents are using the cloud to store pictures of their grandkids. It’s now common for businesses to need access to billions of files, so companies need to move to newer systems to keep track of everything. With so many options available today, what’s really the best solution for storage?
Common Data Storage Systems 
To truly understand legacy storage systems, you need to know how storage has evolved beyond the hard drive. Here is a quick rundown of the most common solutions that have emerged over the years:
<ul>
<li>Storage Area Network (SAN): A SAN is a dedicated network that connects storage devices with servers typically using a Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, or Ethernet. SANs are commonly used for database servers and other applications that require a low-latency block-level storage interface. Advanced setups allow for clustering and failover capabilities among the servers.The downsides of SANs are that they often require exotic network hardware, proprietary software tools, and specialized staff to deploy and manage them. For these reasons, membership in the storage area network is normally limited to a small number of servers.</li>
<li>Network Attached Storage (NAS): The storage devices in a NAS can be a purpose-built NAS appliance or a general-purpose server running Windows or Linux that delivers files to clients. While there have historically been many protocols that connect storage devices and clients, the market has settled upon a couple: Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB). A NAS appliance is an all-in-one bundle of integrated hardware and software that is built for the sole purpose of delivering files to clients. Almost any general-purpose server can also deliver files and act like a NAS with the appropriate level of administrative configuration.Unfortunately, there are inherent disadvantages of NAS systems. With limited potential to scale, they can quickly become costly, complex, and labor-intensive to manage.</li>
<li>Software-Defined Storage (SDS): SDS is still an evolving concept that can include file-based, object-based, block, cloud and storage management solutions. Software-defined storage essentially separates the data and services layers from the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage solutions typically involve storage virtualization, and they may provide features like search, organization, replication, distribution, thin provisioning, snapshots and backup to name a few.</li>
<li>Cloud-Based Storage (Public and Private): As a multi-tenant environment, a public cloud storage system requires you to purchase a portion of a cloud-based computing environment that is shared with many other tenants. Public cloud storage is offered in an on-demand arrangement with monthly payments that can be advantageous; however, capacity and access costs are compounded monthly and won’t go down until data is deleted. Because you pay for the bandwidth to use your data, you may resist running analytics and other operations that would incur additional monthly charges. Private cloud storage solutions let you deploy storage as a service within your data center. You need to make an upfront capital investment in hardware and have the data center space and electrical power to run the service. If security is a priority, you are storing large amounts of data for long periods of time, or you are performing a lot of reads (such as analytics) on your data, a private cloud is almost always the best option. There are also hybrid solutions that provide a combination of private and public services.</li>
<li>Object-Based Storage: One popular type of SDS is object-based storage, which is at the heart of many public and private cloud-based storage services. In this model, there is no hierarchical folder structure; however, object-based storage does provide a method for data organization using metadata (often defined as “data about data”). In object-based storage systems, the data is organized into self-contained entities (objects). This flat approach provides for greater scalability and can be less expensive than block or file-based storage systems. For businesses with a need to store and search through high volumes of data, this is often the ideal solution.</li>
</ul>
Building a cost-effective and scalable storage infrastructure is not a task to be taken lightly. Initiatives like this have the potential to impact IT resources and inflate budgets. So how do you bridge the divide between legacy storage systems and the new data management platforms?
Planning for the Future 
Bridging the gap between legacy storage and newer technologies sometimes requires ensuring compatibility through protocols such as <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/blogblogfollow-the-leader-amazon-s3-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">S3</a>, RESTful HTTP, NFS, and SMB. As a result, business and IT leaders should consider a few important matters before determining the best data management platform to use for taking their businesses into the future.
<ol start="1">
<li>What type of data is being stored, and how quickly is it growing? SAN and NAS are still your best options for structured data; however, the total amount of structured information an organization has is often <a href="http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/do-not-ignore-structured-data-big-data-analytics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">less than 10 percent</a>. Unstructured data is often 90 percent or more of the total capacity need. If you focus on your unstructured data growth rate year over year, you’ll most likely notice an acceleration.Some of this acceleration can be accounted for in factors such as the improvements in resolution for videos and images as well as new sources of unstructured data, such as log files, metrics, and data created by devices. Create a formula based on these considerations, and use it in conjunction with your historic storage capacity compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) to estimate your needs three to five years out. Using your forecasted capacity need, select a storage solution that can expand to accommodate your expected growth.</li>
<li>What are your access patterns? When you think about access, consider what (device, application, etc.) and who needs access and exactly how they will access it (e.g., geographical location and interface or search mechanism). When you have billions of files, how will you find what you need? Almost as important, how will you determine what you don’t need so you can confidently delete this data? When choosing your future storage platform, make sure your chosen solution supports your organization’s access requirements.</li>
<li>How long must the data be retained? Data retention rates vary by industry from a few seconds to indefinitely. When you think about retention, consider the cost of different protection methods versus the value of the data and ease of migration (e.g., how easy it is to continue to evolve the underlying hardware infrastructure). If you factor ease of migration into your decisions today, you will make your life simpler when you one day find yourself needing to migrate petabytes or possibly exabytes of data.Beyond how long you are required to retain data, consider how long that data may be valuable to you from both an information and a monetary perspective.</li>
<li>The relationships between data and keeping content accessible and instantly searchable increase profit and agility, something every forward-thinking business leader understands. If you can keep your data online, organize it, and search it, you can continue to extract value from it.</li>
</ol>
In the information age, those who can leverage long-tail data will not only succeed, but they will also reap benefits in orders of magnitude greater than those constrained by the limits of traditional technologies.

How will you bridge the divide between legacy storage and new data management platforms? Check out these tips on planning for the future.

Network attached storage (NAS) is a high-performance file-level data storage device connected to a computer network that provides data access.

Unstructured data refers to digital files with no pre-defined data model or organizational structure (e.g., video, medical imaging & photos).

Unstructured Data

The Future of Data Storage Solutions

<img class="size-medium wp-image-7154 alignright" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cloud_198-security-cloudtweaks-comic-391x360.png?resize=300%2C276&ssl=1" alt="cloud_198-security-cloudtweaks-comic-391x360" width="300" height="276" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cloud_198-security-cloudtweaks-comic-391x360.png?resize=300%2C276&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cloud_198-security-cloudtweaks-comic-391x360.png?resize=391%2C360&ssl=1 391w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />This article was originally published on <a href="http://cloudtweaks.com/2016/10/3-keys-keeping-online-data-accessible/">CloudTweaks</a>.
Online Data
Data storage is often a real headache for businesses. Additionally, the shift to the cloud in response to storage challenges has caused security teams to struggle to reorient, leaving <a title="" href="http://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-infrastructure/cloud-sdn-and-security-complications/559137182" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">49 percent of organizations</a> doubting their experts’ ability to adapt.
Even so, decision makers should not put off moving from old legacy systems to a more flexible and accessible solution — whether public or private. By putting the right system in place, businesses can free up IT staff for more strategic projects, ensure content is available and retrievable whenever and wherever it’s needed, and <a href="http://cloudtweaks.com/2014/08/using-big-data-analyze-venture-capitalists-ability-recognize-potential/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze data</a> effectively for actionable insights.
Keeping Data Accessible
There are several obstacles that must be overcome when keeping data accessible:
1. Storage silos have been a problem since the first digital storage devices hit the market. Directory and folder hierarchical structures were fairly useful when dealing with a limited number of files, all accessed by users or a handful of applications that knew where to find the files.
But in today’s connected world, where remote collaboration and access by many devices and applications is the norm, these hierarchical structures are hindering new workflows and locking files in place (hence the term “silo”).
2. Search issues present a number of operational and financial challenges to businesses. Searching for data from multiple systems spread across several geographic locations is a laborious task, and the need to use both past and present data makes it even trickier.
The data that is searched is often indexed in a database located in a specific application. This valuable “data about the data,” also known as metadata, needs to be stored in a way that enables portability. The <a href="http://cloudtweaks.com/2016/09/connecting-big-data-iot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet of Things has opened businesses to a world of new data possibilities</a>, but going back to a specific application to search for your file or continuously migrating entire data sets to different analysis applications wastes valuable time and introduces the possibility of errors.
3. Scalability dilemmas in storage capacity, both in file count and the amount of data, as well as expansion to different geographies, prevents businesses from keeping pace with the needs of modern data accessibility requirements.
Most organizations keep data forever because they don’t know what will have value. There are also many use cases in which government regulations require longer retention times and tighter security, creating a compounding effect on storage needs. This growth, combined with the need to keep the data accessible, poses a serious problem for traditional network attached storage solutions, file systems, and their complex hierarchical structures.
Making Your Storage Efficient
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While certainly challenging, these problems are far from insurmountable.  Here are 3 easy-to-implement solutions to help keep storage simple and efficient:
1. Consolidate your data in one storage platform.
The dawn of the cloud was a major breakthrough for data storage, and the first step toward a simplified storage process is to embrace that technology. Sharing resources in a virtual environment is at the heart of the transformation we’re seeing to a more service-based approach in IT.
You can now stand up a storage service within your own data center (a private solution) or use any one of the services on the market (a public solution). If you need to keep your data secure or plan to keep the data for more than three years, private is most likely your best option. However, if you have limited data center space or only need to store data for a few months or years, public is probably the way to go.
2. Leverage metadata.
Data is growing at an astonishing rate, and experts predict the digital universe will reach <a title="" href="http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">44 trillion gigabytes</a> by 2020. But what use is that data if it can’t be found or identified? Metadata is an essential tool for simplifying data storage because it allows managers to quickly and automatically identify characteristics about data in a way that can continuously evolve, providing new views of ever-changing data sets.
The key is making metadata portable and accessible by any application or device in a way that’s easy to protect. For this reason, metadata searching and management must be native features of your storage systems — not just afterthoughts.
3. Adopt object storage.
Object storage is a core feature of many major cloud storage services on the market and is the most efficient and cost-effective way to reliably store and provide access to petabytes of data and trillions of files. Object storage is highly automated, resilient, and easily available, resulting in a vastly improved capacity-to-management resource ratio. It’s common to find one system administrator managing more than 10 PBs of storage (compared to 1PB for a NAS solution).
Object storage uses a method of storing and retrieving data that uses a key or name, supplementing that with metadata. Think of it like a valet service for your data: When you store something, you get a key or associate a tag (metadata) with it. All you need to do is present the key or search for the specific tag or combination of tags, and the storage system will retrieve the data that matches your request.
<img class="alignnone wp-image-43299 size-full" style="margin: 0;" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/shutterstock_125192411-e1440770268280.jpg" alt="storage" width="760" height="505" />
This approach not only makes data easier to find, but it also enables continuous, self-healing protection and virtually unlimited scalability. Certain vendors are also making significant advancements in integrating search and providing interfaces that plug right into existing workflows in a way that’s transparent to current users and applications.
The most effective and simple storage solutions incorporate data consolidation and the use of metadata with object storage. This provides greater data access, better protection from data corruption, and the streamlined performance necessary to keep any amount of data online, accessible, and providing value for growing businesses and organizations.
Whether you want to attribute the quote “With great power comes great responsibility” to <a title="" href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/23/great-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Voltaire or Spider-Man</a>, in the world of business, we need to preface that by saying “With great knowledge comes great power.” Once you simplify your storage, it gives you the knowledge to not only help run your business, but to also gain actionable insight and the power to make discoveries that can help you solve problems and propel your business forward.

How do you keep your online data accessible? The key is making metadata portable and accessible by any application or device. Learn more.

With Caringo Swarm Object Storage, you get continuous, built-in data protection along with exceptional resilience, recovery, and content integrity. 

Data Protection

File Server (fileservers) provide a location for shared disk access so that data files can be shared between various end users and devices.

File Servers

Metadata is "data about data" and can be descriptive, structural, administrative, reference or statistical metadata that is auto- or user-generated.

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