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Cloud Storage for Public Administration

Cloud Storage services, specifically created for the Public Administration, are on-demand solutions designed for storing large amounts of data. Polo Strategico Nazionale’s cloud storage enables fast and intuitive storage, management and access to files. 

Administrations can choose between 5 different Cloud Storage services: 

  • Standard Performance
  • High Performance
  • High and Standard Performance Encrypted
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Object Storage
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Standard Performance

A high-performance storage area network (SAN) using state-of-the-art SSD devices with a capacity of 130,000 IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). The infrastructure is based on All Flash technology – replicated within the Region – which guarantees speed, durability and security.

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High Performance

A SAN (Storage Area Network) based on the NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) standard. NVMe is a transfer protocol that ensures fast, low-latency storage with a capacity of 170,000 IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). 

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High and Standard Performance Encrypted

This solution adds a single volume-level encryption service to High and Standard Performance. With this technique each storage volume on the SAN is reprocessed with a different cryptographic key. Encryption algorithms make data indecipherable to those who do not possess the key to decode the content. 

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Network Attached Storage (NAS)

NAS (Network Attached Storage) refers to specialised servers for data storage and file sharing on a local network. Unlike internal computer storage devices, NAS are stand-alone devices connected to the network and provide centralized storage space accessible from a wide variety of devices connected to it. 

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Object Storage 

Object Storage is a data storage model in which data are stored as ‘objects’, i.e., as independent units. Each object has a unique identifier, called a key, which allows it to also be identified in distributed systems.

There are many advantages compared to the traditional file system-based storage model, where data is organised in a hierarchical directory structure. Object storage stores and makes objects accessible via API (Application Programming Interface).