Bucket Creation in PoINT Archival Gateway: Workflow and Functions

Before an S3 application can store objects on a tape storage system with PoINT Archival Gateway (PAG), a so-called object repository has to be created in PoINT Archival Gateway. An object repository is a kind of container for objects with overall configuration options. PoINT Archival Gateway does not limit the …

Tiering for object storage

Storage tiering has been a well-known concept in IT for decades. It uses prespecified criteria to store data on one of various different classes of storage system. A storage management system which uses the principles of information lifecycle management (ILM), for example, will move files that have not been accessed for a …