ViPR 2.0 improvements
With the announcement of ViPR 2.0 EMC is bringing some improvements and new features to EMC’s Software Defined Storage Software offering. The new and improved ViPR has major steps towards supporting a geo-distributed datacenter. For object storage your multi-site geo-replicated ViPR environment will now be presented as a single global namespace. The world of Active/Active writes is supported with strong consistency using a distributed erasure coding system, so you no longer have to choose between performance and redundancy. Objects are now cut into chucks and stored in containers, this type of hybrid encoding allows for a very low storage overhead. To allow for WAN optimized geo-disperse active/active traffic, ViPR looks for access patents and uses this information to accelerate the process. Object access is done via S3, Swift, or the Atmos API. Another change in the object space brings the Centera API as ViPR CAS. Today ViPR only supports the API, but a future release will allowRead More →