Deployment Guide

10 Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition Storage Overview
4.4 Object storage
Data is stored as objects and a technology that creates more abstraction, often on top of and across local file
systems. Instead of blocks or files, data in the system is managed as objects across a global namespace,
with unique metadata for each object. This namespace can span hundreds of servers, enabling easier scaling
of capacity than either SAN or NAS models.
4.5 Software-defined storage
SDS is a flexible storage model that separates storage functionality from the hardware, where storage
becomes one of the services. Hardware independence architecture enables services and data to flow more
freely when applications change, and systems scale up and down. Data protection and data recovery can
then be implemented as another service limiting silos of functionality in a large business.
Self-service clouds that operate at application and infrastructure layers are multibillion dollar businesses.