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The explosive growth of unstructured data and cloud-native applications has created demand for scalable cloud storage infrastructure in the modern datacenter. Dell ECS is the third-generation object store platform from Dell Technologies. ECS is designed from the ground up to deliver modern cloud storage API, distributed data protection, and active/active availability spanning multiple data centers.
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing your data, and includes a smart solution to back up single indices or entire clusters to a remote shared filesystem using the S3 protocol.