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Dell Technologies has engineered the Dell ObjectScale storage platform to take advantage of the native deployment features of Kubernetes, such as scaling and management capabilities. This next generation of object storage software will be lighter, faster, and deployable on existing infrastructures. It supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale. With rich S3 compatibility and self-service APIs, you can quickly spin up object storage containers to fuel applications ranging from big data and analytics to ephemeral development or test sandboxes.
Objectscale 1.4.x supports three kinds of deployment models:
This paper describes general ObjectScale best practices relating to deployment, networking, security, and application development.