Archipelago is a distributed storage layer that decouples Volume and File operations/logic from the actual underlying storage technology, used to store data. It provides a unified way to provision, handle and present Volumes and Files independently of the storage backend. It also implements thin clones, snapshots, and deduplication, and has pluggable drivers for different backend storage technologies. It was primarily designed to solve problems that arise on large scale cloud environments. Archipelago's end goal is to:

• Decouple storage logic from the actual data store
• Provide logic for thin cloning and snapshotting
• Provide logic for deduplication
• Provide different endpoint drivers to access Volumes and Files
• Provide backend drivers for different storage technologies

It has been designed to help with the further commoditization of storage and in the same time ease the integration and/or migration between different backend storage technologies, without changing the way Volumes and Files are accessed.

Please see the official Synnefo site and the latest Archipelago docs for more information.

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