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OneFS provides integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols including NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP, S3, and HDFS. This support allows you to greatly simplify and consolidate workflows, increase flexibility, and get more value from your enterprise applications. With OneFS, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale file and unstructured data assets and eliminate silos of storage.
To help you address your big data storage and business analytics needs, OneFS is the first and only scale-out NAS platform to provide native Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) support. This means that with OneFS powered storage, you can readily use your Hadoop data with other enterprise applications and workloads. It also eliminates the need to manually move data around or manage a dedicated infrastructure, not integrated with or connected to any other applications, as you would with a direct-attached storage approach. This integration simplifies your business analytics initiatives and helps you leverage results faster.
To provide you with a robust control interface for your cluster, OneFS incorporates a Platform API that directly interfaces with the file system and allows you to gain an even more robust control interface to the cluster. The OneFS Platform API is a REST-based HTTP interface for automation, orchestration, and provisioning of a cluster. With the Platform API, third-party applications can be used to control the administrative capabilities within OneFS—further simplifying management, data protection, and provisioning.
These levels of interoperability help you leverage your large data assets with more flexibility among a broad range of applications and workloads, and across a diverse IT infrastructure environment.