Philippe Nicolas

Internet changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are connected, exchange data and do business. This radical change is one of the cause of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common element is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How famous Internet services we all use everyday can support and scale with thousands of new users added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA ? What are various technologies behind a Cloud Storage service to support hundreds of millions users ?

Internet changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are connected, exchange data and do business. This radical change is one of the cause of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common element is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How famous Internet services we all use everyday can support and scale with thousands of new users and hundreds of TB added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA ?

Internet changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are connected, exchange data and do business. This radical change is one of the causes of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common elements is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How famous Internet services we all use every day can support and scale with thousands of new users and hundreds of TB added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA ?

Internet changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are connected, exchange data and do business. This radical change is one of the cause of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common element is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How famous Internet services we all use everyday can support and scale with thousands of new users added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA ? What are various technologies behind a Cloud Storage service to support hundreds of millions users ?

Droplet, started 2 years ago, is a cross cloud storage compatible client library under BSD license model. Its belongs to the Scality Open Source Program and supports SNIA CDMI and Amazon S3 protocols. Various extensions and tools have been developped by the community such as a cloud migration tool, an incremental backup agent with data deduplication, a file system emulation at a command line interface.

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