Object Storage Chargeback

Brian Dehn accepts the 3rd Place Award at the 2016 Knowledge Sharing Celebration. L-R: Debi Graci, Knowledge Sharing Program; Joe Milardo, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services; Brian Dehn, Principal Systems Engineer, EMC; Jennifer St. Hill, Vice President, EMC Education Services.

Object storage is used for many purposes and is a key storage platform for most public and private cloud solutions. In the public cloud arena, vendors such as Amazon, Google, and EMC offer cloud storage solutions. Cloud applications such as Facebook and Dropbox utilize object storage platforms for storing videos, pictures, spreadsheets, and other unstructured data. Cloud storage vendors such as EMC provide on-premises object storage solutions that enable enterprises to deploy their own private and hybrid cloud storage offerings.

In many of these scenarios, consumers must be charged for the storage they use.

In this Knowledge Sharing article—awarded 3rd Place in the 2016 Knowledge Sharing Competition—Brian Dehn provides an overview of object storage, differentiates it from more traditional types of storage, introduces EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), and explains how ViPR SRM can be used to meet reporting requirements through built-in reports and powerful customization features.

Read the full article here.

Watch an interview with Brian Dehn discussing his article here.

Read all the 2016 Knowledge Sharing articles here.