Q: What are Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)'s top competitors?

Scality ARTESCA , Red Hat Gluster Storage , and NetApp FAS Storage Arrays are common alternatives for Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS).

Question 1

What is Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)?

Accepted Answer

Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) provides distributed, resilient, high-performance storage and retrieval of binary large object (blob) data. Object storage is distributed across a cluster of hardware systems, or nodes. The storage cluster is resilient against hard drive failure within a node and against node failure within a cluster. Nodes can be added to or removed from the cluster to adjust cluster capacity as needed.

Question 2

What are Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)'s top competitors?

Accepted Answer

Scality ARTESCA, Red Hat Gluster Storage, and NetApp FAS Storage Arrays are common alternatives for Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS).

Question 3

Who uses Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) Competitors and Alternatives

Most Commonly Comparedto Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)

Scality ARTESCA

Red Hat Gluster Storage

NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

Dropbox

Amax StorMax SDS

FalconStor StorSafe

IBM Storage Ceph

StarWind Virtual SAN

IBM Storage Fusion

StarWind SAN & NAS