Solix Technologies has announced API support for Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), a web service available from Amazon Web Services and also for private cloud deployments. The new S3 storage solutions are supported on Solix Big Data Suite 2.3, as part of a new software update.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable, cloud-based object storage system that simplifies enterprise data management, by storing data and its associated metadata as objects in user-defined containers (buckets). Buckets can be configured to meet a variety of purposes, including enterprise archiving, data lake, application retirement, and security and compliance requirements. S3 provides low cost bulk data storage on commodity hardware and is an ideal infrastructure choice for enterprise archiving, data lake and unstructured data applications.
Solix Technologies Inc., the leading provider of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for Apache Hadoop, helps businesses achieve compliance and manage their enterprise data with optimized infrastructure, security and advanced analytics. Solix Technologies, Inc. is an affiliate of TechNVision Ventures.