Features and benefits

• Leverages commodity hardware: No lock-in, lower price/GB.
• HDD/node failure agnostic: Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects from failures.
• Unlimited storage: Large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write access, able to serve content directly from storage system.
• Multi-dimensional scalability: Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and horizontally-distributed storage. Backs up and archives large amounts of data with linear performance.
• Account/container/object structure: No nesting, not a traditional file system: Optimized for scale, it scales to multiple petabytes and billions of objects.
• Built-in replication 3? + data redundancy (compared with 2? on RAID): A configurable number of accounts, containers and object copies for high availability.
• Easily add capacity (unlike RAID resize): Elastic data scaling with ease.
• No central database: Higher performance, no bottlenecks.
• RAID not required: Handle many small, random reads and writes efficiently.
• Built-in management utilities: Account management: Create, add, verify, and delete users; Container management: Upload, download, and verify; Monitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and cluster health.
• Drive auditing: Detect drive failures preempting data corruption.
• Expiring objects: Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object to control access.
• Direct object access: Enable direct browser access to content, such as for a control panel.
• Realtime visibility into client requests: Know what users are requesting.
• Supports S3 API: Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3 API.
• Restrict containers per account: Limit access to control usage by user.

We provide OpenStack monitoring as well.