DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced WOS S3, a significant expansion to its accessibility program for WOS. The update adds support for Amazon S3 API, giving DDN the broadest range of supported interfaces for an object storage platform. DDN will also accelerate its WOS Partner Program.
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced WOS S3, a significant expansion to its accessibility program for WOS. The update adds support for Amazon S3 API, giving DDN the broadest range of supported interfaces for an object storage platform. DDN will also accelerate its WOS Partner Program.
The new expansion enables users from enterprise to academia to government even more choices for their existing datacenters. Customers will be able to implement a broader range of software and hardware solutions and support the rapidly growing number of third-party ISV applications and technology partners that use S3 API. WOS S3 is the industry's only object storage platform with support for industry standard and DDN-unique cloud protocols, including Amazon S3.
Benefits to WOS S3 include:
- Direct connectivity in a single name space from a GPFS environment for high-performance computing and data intensive users, native-REST for custom deployments in Web-scale solutions, and NFS/CIFS for legacy IT and datacenter applications.
- Offers the performance, scalability, search, and global content distribution capabilities that are not available with legacy block or file storage systems.
- Scales non-disruptively to over 5,000 concurrent sessions, and more than five billion stored objects in a single, highly efficient namespace, providing significantly lower data storage management and TCO at scale when compared to competing object storage solutions.
- Helping organizations with large archives, media repositories, and web data stores to easily implement a private or hybrid cloud, or transition to or from the Amazon
- Highly available and fault tolerant and supports non-disruptive expansion and can survive multiple failures without interruption of availability, data loss or namespace corruption.
- Enables performance and durability optimization that complies with all storage requirements.
DDN also announced that it is accelerating its WOS Partner ecosystem. The flexibility of the WOS S3 makes it an attractive solution for DDN WOS partners to build solutions with. The partner program enables partners to integrate with WOS and deliver integrated technology solutions supported by joint sales and marketing programs.
Benefits to WOS Connect Partner Program include:
- More value and return on investment to customers.
- Gives organizations more software choices and increased solution capabilities when implementing private or hybrid cloud storage solutions including a diverse and growing set of use cases such as file sync and share, content delivery, global collaboration, storage tiering and active archiving.
- Onboarding program that helps educate and enable partners with valuable go-to-market training and tools.
Availability and pricing
WOS S3 is available now and priced to meet the wide variety of needs for different cloud models.
