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SoDA is designed to tackle these challenges. The software provides a central console with visibility into all types of storage: object, file, and local. Data movement policies are configured and monitored through this console. Data can be moved, copied, or synchronized (one way) in an on-going or one time basis. The cloud console communicates to local agents at each site, where each site uses WAN optimized data movement directly among all sites
The SoDA Controller is deployed as a service in AWS, on Prem, or Hosted by SoDA. Users log into a fully managed SoDA instance. From here, agents for Windows, Linux, and macOS can be downloaded for deployment near storage resources. The local agents may communicate to one or more storage targets simultaneously. Multiple agents can connect to the same storage target in different ways, such as a Windows agent using SMB and a Linux agent using NFS. CloudSoda has the smarts to differentiate between these various scenarios while providing agent based access to shared storage.