Dell EMC ECS is a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of safety and security video and unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS is specifically designed to support the mobile, cloud, and Big Data workloads that are similar to large-scale workloads.
ECS provides UI, RESTful API, and CLI interfaces for provisioning, managing, and monitoring storage resources. Storage services provided by the unstructured storage engine (USE) ensure that video is available and protected against data corruption, hardware failures, and data center disasters. The USE enables global namespace management and replication across geographically dispersed data centers and enables the following storage services:
- Object service
- Enables you to store, access, and manipulate video and unstructured data. The object service is compatible with existing Amazon S3, Dell EMC Centera ™ content addressable storage (CAS), and Atmos ™ APIs.
- Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Helps you use your ECS infrastructure as a Big Data repository against which you can run Hadoop analytic applications .
The provisioning service manages the provisioning of safety and security video storage resources and user access. Specifically, it handles user management, authorization, and authentication for all provisioning requests, resource management, and multitenancy.
You can scale up, scale out, and add users, applications, and services, as well as manage your local and distributed storage resources for your safety and security data through a single view.