Today EMC announced upcoming updates to OneFS, the operating system for the Isilon scale-out storage platform.  The new version of the software will offer new capabilities including:

• Support for Hadoop’s HDFS 2.0
• Object Storage
• Extended RESTful APIs with support for EMC Atmos, Amazon S3, and OpenStack’s Swift
• Support for EMC’s newly-announced software-defined storage platform, ViPR
• Online Block-Level Data Deduplication
• New Audit Security features

I’ll break down each of the new features below. Continue reading →