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Enterprises are storing ever-increasing amounts of data that must be kept available. In the event of system or site failures, the costs and complexities of restoring huge amounts of data can be overwhelming to an IT organization.
The Dell ECS platform has been designed to address both the capacity and availability needs of today’s enterprises. ECS provides exabyte scalability with support for a globally distributed object infrastructure. It is architected to provide enterprise availability with integrated automatic failure detection and self-recovery options.
This paper describes the architectural details about how ECS provides enterprise availability. It includes details such as: