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Dell ObjectScale appliance provides organizations flexibility in deploying and managing enterprise-grade object storage. ObjectScale is a distributed system that has a layered architecture. Every function is built as an independent layer, which provides horizontal scalability across all nodes and enables high availability. ObjectScale software provides optimum protection, geo-replication, greater availability, and secure data access. Running inside Kubernetes, object stores can be co-located and managed with the applications they support.