Distributed storage manages data across multiple nodes, often in different locations, while presenting a unified storage system to users and applications. This approach distributes data and workloads to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.

It overcomes the limits of traditional single-node storage, supporting environments where scalability, availability, and performance are essential. By spreading data across nodes, distributed storage ensures growth and resilience without dependency on a single point of failure.

• Scalability: Expands horizontally by adding nodes beyond single-node limits.
• High Availability & Fault Tolerance: Replicates data to prevent service disruption.
• Unified Storage: Combines block, object, and file storage in one system.
• Performance & Parallelism: Data in Distributed Storage are retrieved from several nodes simultaneously, reducing latency and improving throughput.

In short, distributed storage enables organizations to scale and manage data efficiently while maintaining strong performance and reliability.

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