EMC rolls out Elastic Cloud Storage v2.2

Source: EMC infographic. Who benefits from using ECS?

EMC has announced general availability for v2.2 of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS). A key part of EMC’s software-defined storage (SDS) portfolio, ECS is an object-based cloud storage platform.

"ECS is built from the ground up to handle the massive burden generated by object data from mobile devices, social media and the Internet of Things (IoT), something many traditional storage platforms aren’t designed to handle," said Manuvir Das, SVP of Engineering, Advanced Software Division at EMC, in a blog post.

EMC ECS 2.2 delivers software defined storage, native support for multiple protocols including AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, HDFS and NFS, and will search metadata across exabytes of unstructured data without a dedicated database. "Data at rest” encryption is supported, and ECS complies with SEC 17 a-4(f) and CFTC 1.31(b)-(c) regulations. 

"ECS is compatible with a growing number of ISV solutions such as Hortonworks, and has been certified on four levels of HDP. Check out what Hortonworks VP of Global Channels and Alliances, Chris Sullivan, has to say about ECS: 'After rigorously testing and certifying Hortonworks Data Platform with EMC ECS, we are saving customers time to implement the solution, while providing them with an assurance of interoperability. With ECS, customers can benefit from a software-defined object storage system with HDP for analytics and unlocking business insights,'” shared Das.

Interested?

Read the EMC blog post, which includes an associated video
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