In order to fulfill these requirements, IT organizations and service providers have begun to evaluate and utilize low cost, commodity and open-source infrastructures. These commodity components and standard open technologies reduce storage costs but the individual components provide lower performance and reliability – and also require the operational expertise to ensure serviceability of the infrastructure.

EMC® Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS™) provides a complete software-defined object storage platform designed for today’s scale-out cloud storage requirements. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity infrastructure with the enterprise-grade reliability and serviceability of and integrated EMC-supported solution. ECS benefits include:

• Cloud-scale Economics: 65% TCO savings versus public cloud services
• Simplicity & Scale: Single global namespace, unlimited apps, users and files
• Multi-site Efficiency: Low storage overhead across geo-distributed locations
• Faster App Development: API accessible storage accelerates cloud apps & analytics
• Turnkey Cloud: Multi-tenancy, self-service access and metering capabilities

Global Content Repository

Unprecedented data growth both in structured and unstructured content are driving the need to store large files (such as images and videos) in high cost, silo’d storage systems. Traditional infrastructure often isolates data making it difficult and costly to exchange and manage content. This type of environment does not scale efficiently and economically forcing customers to seek out a comprehensive solution that delivers the benefits of both public and private clouds. ECS Appliance enables any organization to consolidate multiple storage systems and content archives into a single, globally accessible and efficient content repository that can host many applications.

Anywhere Access to Content

ECS’s multi-site; active-active architecture, single global namespace and universal accessibility (Object and HDFS) enables anywhere access to content from any application or device. Buckets of data span sites allowing read/write to any location with strong consistency semantics to simplify application development and facilitate anywhere access to data. ECS very intelligently supports geo-caching by identifying mult-site access patterns and caching data at the location where it’s being accessed most frequently.

Data Lake Foundation

Traditional storage can make unlocking business intelligence and analytics challenging. Data is often layered across complex systems making accessibility and management difficult and costly. Organization are forced to pull data from operational systems and then load them to a dedicated cluster for analysis. Accuracy and timeliness are key components to delivering efficient analytics and ECS enables customers to deliver insightful business intelligence on large, distributed content stores without the need for Extract, Load & Transform (ETL) operations. ECS provides a centralized Data Lake Foundation to access and manage any organizations content through multiple Hadoop distributions.

Big Data Analytics

ECS HDFS makes it simple to bring analytics to all the object data stored in ECS. ECS treats HDFS as an access protocol on top of the object storage engine. A drop-in client deployed on the data nodes of an existing Hadoop environment enables analytics queries on the object data in ECS without any ETL process. The time it takes to extract value from data analysis can be the difference between gaining and losing market share. With ECS HDFS, you can expand analytics capabilities to geo-distributed content and archives to glean new business insight, identify new business opportunites, and improve time to results.

State -of-the-Art, Patented Technology

ECS’s patented technology provides highly dense storage for Hadoop enabling customers to deliver insightful business intelligence on large, distributed content stores. ECS can efficiently store PBs of data in a low cost, state-of-art commodity-based storage system. ECS addresses the challenges associated with tradtional HDFS enabling enterprise features like erasure coding and geo-replication with reduced storage overhead.

Platform For Modern Applications

Today’s modern applications demand a different architecture. Managing both cost and accessibility as storage environments grow and become more comlex is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. Traditional storage was never architected for new Web, mobile, and cloud applications. Developers are finding it easier to go to public cloud alternatives putting data at risk and increasing management costs. ECS Appliance provides a cloud-scale storage architecture that is specifically designed to support modern applications with unparalleled availability, protection, simplicity and scale.

Multi-protocol, API-accessible Storage

ECS is a massively scalable, software-defined object storage platform that enables any organization to store, access, and manipulate unstructured data as objects. ECS is compatible with industry-standard object APIs such as Amazon S3 API with support for byte range updates and atomic appends giving developer’s choice and more functionality than public cloud alternatives.

Simple Multi-Tenancy

ECS delivers a flat software architecture ideal for multi-tenant environments. Configuring, provisioning, namespace creation and managing a multi-tenant platform have never been easier. key metrics and reporting are provided for capacity, object count, objects created, objects deleted and inbound/outbound bandwidth. A quota feature enables administrators to set soft quotas and quota locking for buckets and tenants. In addition, administrators can view activities pertaining to the creation, update, and deletion of buckets and changes to ownership. These activities are all visible via the ECS GUI and through REST API. A metering API is also included for object services to provide granular data for various tenants.