Introduction
In the face of rapid data growth, cloud storage offers enterprises the opportunity to reduce not only the capital costs of purchasing storage but also the operational costs of managing it. More and more companies want to migrate their existing applications to the cloud environment, however without affecting the original data infrastructure, it not only needs to invest a lot of money, but also needs to overcome the technology difficulty.
EaseClouds Virtual File System
EaseClouds provides a comprehensive solution to help your organization seamlessly integrate your existing applications to the cloud environment, to private or plublic clouds, without affecting the original data and programs, without any modification of your existing applications. EaseClouds is a Cloud-Enabled file system, which can integrate your local storage to the cloud storage automatically, let you have the unlimited storage space with low cost, help your organization maximize the capital and operational cost savings from cloud storage.
EaseClouds File System features:
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1. Automated Cloud Migration
There are a lot of challenges to move your current business to the cloud without affecting your existing infrastructure, your application might rely on the local active directory for the security check, local IP address check, DNS entries check, only can access the files in specific local folders. With EaseClouds file system, it can help you to eliminate these risks.
No application change needed.
You don't need to redesign your application, you don't need to worry about the integration of cloud storage with your application. You don't need to learn about the API of the different cloud provider, all you need is to set up a cloud account, enable the EaseClouds File System, it will do the integration job for you. You don't need to create the extra network drive to access the cloud storage for your application, you can keep the same local directory structure to access the cloud storage.
- No network change needed.
You don't need to change your current network infrastructure, your security access control remain the same, there are no change for your users to access your application, still keep the same IP address, the same active directory setting, the same DNS setting. The EaseClouds File System integrates with the local file system, it can help you to remain the same access methods and security solution.
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2. Great Performance
Performance always is the biggest issue for moving your business to the cloud storage, EaseClouds File System is the unique file system which was designed to optimize the performance to access the cloud storage with the complicated algorithm, it introduces three ways to improve the performance:
- Automated tiered storage.
Integrating the cloud storage with the local file system, it is transparent and automated to migrate the files between the local storage and the cloud storage. When there are no access to the local files for a period the time, it can be migrated to the cloud storage, and it can retrive the cloud file back to the local storage based on the access policies. Keeping the recent accessed files in the local storage, it can reduce the cloud traffic and improve the performance, at the same time you can seamless access the cloud files via your application. As below figure shows it includes the local physical files and virtual files in the same folder.
- Completed virtual file system.
It doesn't like the other virtual file system or cloud storage solution, they need to download or synchronize the files to the local, with the EaseClouds File System, there are no any data need to be downloaded before the users browse the folders. There are only the the metadata of the specific directory will be downloaded when the users browse the mapped local directory. There are only when the user is going to read or write the virtual file, it will download the file data.
- Block-level granularity.
With the integration of the local file system, only the requested block data needs to be downloaded instead of downloading the whole file when the application accesses the virtual file , especially for the large files, it will extremely improve the performance and improve the user experience.
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3. Support cloud-based disaster recovery
Cloud-based Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) takes a very different approach to disaster recovery based on virtualization. EaseClouds File System automatically integrate the cloud storage to the local storage, it can deliver a fully functional virtual infrastructure ready to take over should an outage disrupt primary services. The virtual files is stored in an offsite public cloud where it remains in standby ready for failover. Data synchronization operates in the background to keep data up-to-date. The entire system can be spun up in minutes, saving the organization from costly service interruption.
EaseClouds provides you a complete, rapid, reliable and economical cloud disaster recovery solution, with EaseClouds Connect, it can automatically integrate your on-premises storage with the cloud storage , so you can get the tremendous advantages in terms of elasticity, agility, scalable capacity and utility pricing, your company can scale up its infrastructure on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis, you can get access to the same highly secure, reliable, and fast infrastructure provided by cloud providers.
Active-Active Cluster system
With EaseClouds File System enabled, you can set up two or more active systems, which the virtual files can be accessed from all the active systems, it can distribute your load balance and support the automated fail over without your interference.
Zero downtime for the disaster recovery
With EaseClouds DR solution, in the event of a disaster, automatically fail over the local storage to the cloud storage if disaster strikes,you can quickly launch resources to ensure your business continuity. You can leverage for your disaster recovery (DR) processes to significantly minimize the impact on your data, your system, and your overall business operations, your business won't be interrupted. Retrieve back the files from cloud storage is very fast, only the applications requested data will be downloaded.
Conclusions
EaseClouds provides the organizations a complete, rapid, reliable and economical cloud storage solution, with EaseClouds Connect, it can automatically integrate your on-premises storage with the cloud storage , so you can get the tremendous advantages in terms of elasticity, agility, scalable capacity and utility pricing, your company can scale up its infrastructure on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis, you can get access to the same highly secure, reliable, and fast infrastructure provided by cloud providers.
