Internap's Cloud Storage is an Internet-based storage system, compatible with the open source OpenStack SWIFT API, and designed to work with web applications for storing a large amounts of data. It's designed from the ground-up to avoid the traditional limitations of block-storage and filesystem-based storage services, which usually have substantial limits on how many clients can connect and how far away they can be.
Features
Internap Cloud Storage offers the following features:
- Unlimited, per-GB usage billing
- Supports petabytes of storage
- RESTful API
- Objects up to 5GB in size
- Built in data protection (five copies of each object are stored across multiple "fault isolation" zones)
- Flat namespace - no complicated folder nesting
- Direct object access from clients
- Access controls - limit unauthorized access
Use Cases
What good is object-based cloud storage? Well, you can use it for:
- Long term storage, like archives and backups (write once, read never)
- General web data (write once, read many)
- Media libraries (photos, videos, music)
- Storage for a web-scale SaaS application (lots and lots of small files)
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