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ELASTIC CLOUD STORAGE
Cloud-scale Object Platform
Dell EMC® Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS™) is an agile, object-based platform that
delivers massive scalability to commodity infrastructure on a geo-scale software-defined
architecture. ECS bridges the gap between traditional (Platform 2) and next-gen
(Platform 3) workloads and applications.
CLOUD-SCALE ECONOMICS
ECS brings cloud-scale capabilities and economics to any organization. ECS
incorporates commodity components with ECS software to provide cloud-scale
capabilities optimized for a low cost-to-serve. Enterprises and service providers can
quickly deploy a highly efficient object storage platform on premise and realize up to
60% lower TCO than public cloud storage providers at scale.
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
ECS provides universal accessibility with support for object (S3, Swift, Dell EMC Atmos
& CAS), file (NFSv3, CIFS/SMB via CIFS-ECS tool), and HDFS (Hortonworks certified)
– all within a single storage platform. ECS is also available in multiple configurations
supporting large files or a high volume of small files for unstructured content. An
enterprise or service provider can support the broadest range of applications and data
types on a single cloud storage platform.
GLOBAL ANALYTICS
ECS provides a cost-effective HDFS platform that makes all data available to Big Data
analytics and information-based applications. ECS enables you to bring analytics to
geo-distributed data without any Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) or data massaging
processes that can affect data quality and availability. Instantly extract business
intelligence, bring value to your data, and improve your go to market with ECS HDFS.
OPTIMIZED STORAGE
ECS delivers a state-of-the-art unstructured storage engine that offers an unmatched
combination of storage efficiency and data access. ECS provides geo-protection with
very low storage overhead while maintaining local access to content and minimizing
WAN traffic. Customers get the best of both worlds: low-cost, efficient geo-protected
data and lower bandwidth costs with no compromise to data access.
FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT
Consume ECS on your own terms; as a turnkey appliance or as ECS Software that can
be deployed on supported industry -standard hardware. You can also experience a fully
Dell EMC-managed ‘ECS-as-a-Service,’ giving you the flexibility of choosing between
ECS in your own datacenters, ECS in Dell EMC datacenters, or a hybrid of the two
based on your business needs.
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