Cloud Topics Library
Cloud Terminology Reference Guide
What is S3 Compatible Storage?
Data is growing faster than ever before and most of that data is unstructured: video, email, files, data backups, surveillance streams, genomics and more. Object storage systems are designed for this type of data at petabyte scale.
What is a Software Defined Storage?
This radically different approach, storage resources are decoupled from hardware, aggregated into a giant pool, and distributed dynamically to applications and users as needed.
What is a Always-On Petabyte Storage?
If your system goes down, so does your business, along with the hard-won trust and goodwill of your customers.
What is Multi-Cloud?
Multi-cloud is one of today’s biggest buzzwords. Multi-cloud is also a fairly general term being used by many people for many purposes and as such is causing confusion and disagreement about its meaning.
What is a Nearline Storage?
Nearline or Active Archives are positioned in the Goldilocks Zone, between the high cost of real-time online storage, and the low cost offline storage with very high access latency.
What is an Exabyte?
An exabyte is such a big number that it loses its meaning. Even the regular comparisons to the Library of Congress don’t do it justice, but let’s set it to music.
What is a distributed file system?
A distributed file system is a physically distributed implementation of the classical time-sharing model of the traditional file system, allowing users to manipulate, organize and share data seamlessly, regardless of its actual location on the network.
What is a Object Storage?
Designed to be massively scalable and as such is fundamentally different from traditional block or file storage systems.
Object Storage vs. NAS
NAS, or network attached storage, is the main and primary shared storage architecture for file storage, which has been the ubiquitous and familiar way to store data for a long time, based on a traditional file system comprising files organized in hierarch