Review on DDN WOS by Julio Solano

The ability to have it all as its primary product - object stores like EMC Isilon has been replaced by 3rd party/open source products such as OpenStack Swift and Ceph RBDM. This opens up the market place for vendors who are not necessarily familiar with how these systems work to enter this space without needing to build their own custom infrastructure from scratch. There's definitely some overhead with using third party software, but there are many benefits including reduced risk of vendor lockin that would be costly if you went straight into building your entire datacentre stack. We can now easily spin out separate virtual servers when needed like we do in OpenStack. The benefits are fast access times, great support from their team as well as really good pricing. No downsides at all! We have used it since 2015 and never had issues or anything like that. Highly recommended if you're looking into cloud backup solutions. For our business we needed secure and robust cloud backups which could be accessed whenever necessary without having to worry about network availability. This service offers us just this.