DuraCloud Features

Web Interface Features

• Access to all storage system capabilities, including space and content creation, updates, and deletes
• Access to graphical depictions of the information contained in the storage reports
• Bulk deletion of spaces and content items
• User account administration

API Features

• Storage system REST API
  • Space (top level folder) listing
  • Space creation
  • Space deletion
  • Space access definition
  • Content (file) listing
  • Content storage
  • Content deletion
  • Content properties and tagging
  • Retrieval of audit logs
  • Retrieval of space manifest
• Reporting system REST API
  
  • Storage report listing
  • Storage report retrieval
  • Storage report starting and stopping
  • Storage report scheduling
  • Service report listing
  • Service report retrieval
  Security requiring authentication on all DuraCloud applications

Core Services

• Media Streaming:
• • Provides streaming capabilities for video and audio files.
• Bit Integrity Checking:
• • Verifies that content stored in DuraCloud maintains bit-level integrity over time by calculating a checksum value upon content storage and the at frequent intervals to ensure no changes have occurred
• Duplication:
  • Keeps content in multiple storage providers consistent.

Tools

• Sync Tool:
  
  • Provides a utility with both graphical and command line interfaces for keeping DuraCloud content synchronized with the local file system.
• Retrieval Tool:
  
  • Provides a command line utility for transferring content stored in DuraCloud to the local file system.
• Chunker Tool:
  
  • Provides a command line utility for transferring single files to DuraCloud. Files larger than a configurable threshold will be "chunked" (split into multiple files) prior to transfer.
• Stitcher Tool:
  
  • Provides a command line utility for retrieving single "chunked" files from DuraCloud. As the file is retrieved, it is "stitched" (combined back into the original file).