dsNet Object Store is ideally suited for your applications that store digital content such as video files, images, and audio files. In reality, you already don't use the file system to manage digital content, specific applications handle creating, accessing, and deleting digital content from your content libraries.

So why not rely on a storage approach that ties your applications more closely to your storage, and avoids the scalability limitations of the file system. And provides easier storage provisioning without separate virtualization software. And allows for access control to be set at the object level. And allows management of both block and object vaults under the same unified management system.

Benefits

By storing the content in a dsNet Object Store, several advantages are realized:

• Storage capacity grows dynamically and is added as needed
• A single object namespace provides unlimited scale
• Independent of the file system and operating system it's not impacted by their limits
• Unlimited simultaneous readers and writers
• Tighter coupling between applications and storage
  

Use Cases

The underlying dsNet storage pool can be shared and jointly accessible by multiple access protocols, giving additional flexibility.

If your application is housing your metadata, and only object storage is required, the Simple Object interface can be accessed with either a Java SDK, or HTTP/REST API. Simple PUT, GET, DELETE commands allow your applications to access digital content, and the resulting object ID is stored directly within the application.

If you prefer or also want to have a file system store your metadata, a file system interface can be accessed via dsFTP, a software client on host which can read or write files from and to the dsNet Slicestor appliances, without needing an Accesser appliance.

Rely on your applications to do what they are best at - help you manage your digital content. Rely on dsNet Object Storage to do what we're best at - provide limitless scalability.