Overview

Objects in the Cloud

Object storage is emerging as a standard for Cloud storage, particularly in cases involving storage and distribution of unstructured content, such as images and video and audio files.

But in many scenarios, the file system isn't being used to manage digital content. Why? Metadata.

Leveraging metadata within the applications enables a much more sophisticated searching and sorting based on actual content. Typical file systems attributes—such as name, data modified, size, kind—won’t help a search for, say, a particular image five years from now.

Object storage ties directly into a metadata approach, since it makes the most sense to simply store an Object ID along with the metadata. So when you're searching for an image, it doesn’t matter if the object has been moved from server to server, because the object ID identifies it. No broken links or missing files. No data migration headaches.

Cleversafe offers a superior approach to the old way of doing things. One that ties your applications more closely to your storage, avoiding the scalability limitations of the file system. It provides easier storage provisioning. And allows for access control to be set at the object level. 

Learn more about Cleversafe’s Object Storage architecture and how it can integrate, based on your application requirements. 

Benefits

By leveraging an underlying object store, several advantages are realized:

Learn more about Cleversafe’s Object Storage architecture.