MOSS - Media Object Storage Systems

MOSS是一个为期12个月的项目，旨在研究和开发基于对象的“blob”存储系统，该系统针对基于网络的处理，分发和归档非常大的媒体文件集合进行了优化。该项目将创建一种基于开源技术和标准的新型功能对象存储。它将演示一个protptype，使用示例性应用程序，并发布一份将功能对象存储映射到媒体行业工作流程的白色白皮书。将基于对象的存储和跨网络和云中的专业媒体数据的功能编程相结合，将提高数据的弹性，持久性和网络交付，并解决版本控制问题。项目负责人是一家中小企业解决方案提供商（Ovation Data Services），与一家大型创意媒体设施公司（Smoke & Mirrors）以及帝国理工学院的一个研究小组合作，该研究小组在分布式计算系统和函数式编程方面有着良好的记录。在项目完成后，Ovation希望将其成果推向市场，推出新一代的存储产品和服务。

MOSS is a twelve-month project to research and develop object-based ‘blob’ storage systems that are optimised for the network-based processing, distribution and archiving of very large collections of media files. The project will create a new kind of Functional Object Storage, based on Open Source technologies and standards. It will demonstrate a protptype, working with exemplary applications, and publish a White Paper mapping Functional Object Storage to media industry workflows. Combining object-based storage and functional programming for professional media data, across networks and in the Cloud, will improve data resilience, permanence and network delivery, and resolve problems of versioning. The project leader is a SME solutions provider (Ovation Data Services), working with a large creative media facilities company (Smoke & Mirrors), and a research group at Imperial College with a strong track record in distributed computing systems and functional programming. Aftre the project, Ovation expects to bring the results to market in a new generation of storage products and services.