hidden:Programming interfaces for archives

List of programmable interfaces to deep storage

• Spectra Logic, Black Pearl
  • offers a REST interface (with S3 similarities) for the Black Pearl product. Black Pearl uses LTFS and the Spectra Logic libraries for archive storage on tape.

• Oracle, Oracle Archive Manager
  • the OAM is an interface proxy between Swift and SAM-QFS. Oracle seems to have discontinued development of the product. SAM-QFS is named Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager since Oracle bought Sun Microsytems. SAM-QFS was open source until then. Based on the open source code Versity is marketing the Versity HSM.

• MT-T Consulting, Nodeum
  • Nodeum interfaces Linux ext4 with LTFS to enable a HSM. A REST API allows direct interaction with Nodeum.

• SNIA XAM
  • is a standard description of an interface to archive/tape from SNIA. Independant vendor modules allow the attachment of different vendor products

• Interface to Glacier

• HPSS
  • The high performance storage system, HPSS, offers a very rich (C) API to large HSM storage offering scalable IO and volume (> EB), multiple data copies, end to end data integrity checks and more.