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Everyone talks about "cloud". Among them, cloud storage has become one of the hottest concepts in the industry. Big data era, there is no storage or storage technology, everything will become a "floating cloud"!

Object storage itself is a completely different solution from the traditional one, similar to the emerging trend of software-defined storage. Customers will use servers-- in most cases commercial servers-- to implement storage capabilities, and vendors must understand and accept this. Therefore, for hardware suppliers, what they need to do is no longer to rely solely on the storage business unit to sell arrays or file storage devices, but to further promote server business upgrading. This leaves a lot of room for imagination for emerging software-defined storage vendors.

In fact, object storage, block storage and file storage are all three concepts derived from data, but there are different extensions for data, such as data storage, data distribution, data reading and writing speed. Can we distinguish the concepts of block storage, file storage and object storage around different dimensions of data processing?

To put it simply, block storage is fast in reading and writing, which is not conducive to sharing; file storage is slow in reading and writing, which is conducive to sharing; object storage is an integrated advantage of both, and it is a network storage technology that facilitates sharing and fast reading and writing. as soon as object storage technology comes out, it is sought after by CIO!

So what problems can object storage technology solve and what benefits can it bring to us?

"object storage is a kind of distributed storage, which can help enterprises solve the problems caused by the rapid growth of unstructured data. The most commonly used scheme of object storage is that multiple servers have built-in large-capacity hard drives, then install object storage software, and then set up a few additional servers as management nodes to install object storage management software. The management node can manage other servers and provide visualization and automated operation and maintenance functions. In the era of big data, users' use of data is very flexible, and it is the development trend of storage technology to call all kinds of data or interfaces at any time to meet the needs of users. In the future, Shanyan distributed object storage technology has a wide range of application space and application scenarios, and will lead a new trend in the development of object storage technology, "Shanyan data CTO said in an interview with reporters.

The reason why object storage can attract a lot of objects, but also because it has a lot of charm and advantages, specifically reflected in the following five aspects:

1. High reliability. If one or more of the disks or devices fail, the other disks in all clusters can be replaced and keep the system running as usual. Data recovery takes only a few minutes, and data availability is uninterrupted. In contrast, in traditional storage, when a RAID disk fails, the system is as slow as a snail takes hours or days to rebuild the array.

2. Clustering. Object storage system can scale linearly in a cluster in the form of ScaleOut, increase or decrease storage nodes directly according to the size of storage, or even implement a cluster across regions, regardless of the number of files, file size and file system capacity. Better support business flexibility; avoid the trouble of traditional hardware migration or large-scale hardware upgrade.

3. Sharing. Object storage software is equivalent to a special file system and provides a service-oriented interface, so it is very convenient to realize data sharing.

4. Easy to maintain. The object storage space can be managed uniformly, and based on a single flat address space, the storage of reasonable automatic routing of data can be realized, which saves the complex and expensive management cost of making the enterprise storage system in the working state of production all the time.

5. Load balancing. Each node of the object storage cluster is independent, and the access load can be evenly distributed among all nodes in the cluster to avoid unreasonable resource utilization in NAS and cluster file systems. And data reading can automatically select reasonable nodes to ensure the maximum performance of the system.

To sum up, object storage technology will increasingly exist as a set of access protocols, rather than architecture design ideas. In fact, CIO doesn't really devote most of its energy to internal design, rather than focusing on the actual performance of the applications it delivers to its users.

Object storage technology will become an important part of future storage technology, and will be added to the transformation attempt for commercial hardware equipment by many large suppliers in this way. Object storage technology will affect the future trend of network storage market. This is the trend!

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