Dell EMC ECS is a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of video security and unstructured data at massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS is designed to support the mobile, cloud, and big data workloads that are similar to large-scale video management workloads.

Figure 23.    Dell EMC ECS

ECS provides multiprotocol access where data ingested through one protocol can be accessed through others. Data can be ingested through S3 and modified through NFSv3 or Swift, or you can choose from many other protocol options as needed.

Dell EMC GeoDrive provides a local file system interface through which we can store and retrieve files on a Dell EMC ECS. GeoDrive provides fast and transparent access to ECS. It does not require complicated shares, mount points, or API development. Since GeoDrive presents an ECS bucket as a local drive in Windows, users and applications can store content in the cloud using existing applications written for Windows, with no additional IT or infrastructure cost. This architecture is used widely to leverage Dell EMC ECS as a tier-2 storage system for video management systems.