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| PMA.core supports the following storage media: | PMA.core supports the following storage media: | ||
| - | * local hard disk (think of you conventional C: and D: drives and partitions) | + | * local hard disk (think of you conventional ''C:'' and ''D:'' drives and partitions) |
| - | * network storage like SMB shares (must be accessible via UNC \\server\path\to\data routes) | + | * network storage like SMB shares (must be accessible via UNC ''%%\\server\path\to\data%%'' routes) |
| * S3-compliant cloud storage (Amazon AWS, Western Digital HGST, NetApp, Arvados, IBM...) | * S3-compliant cloud storage (Amazon AWS, Western Digital HGST, NetApp, Arvados, IBM...) | ||
| * Microsoft Azure storage | * Microsoft Azure storage | ||
| * FTP server (yup, that [[https://www.filezilla.org|free FileZilla File Transfer Protocol server]] is still around and can be now put to new uses for digital pathology applications!) | * FTP server (yup, that [[https://www.filezilla.org|free FileZilla File Transfer Protocol server]] is still around and can be now put to new uses for digital pathology applications!) | ||
| - | Our tile server introduces [[working_with_root_directories|root-directories]]: virtual mounting points that can point to any of these types of storage, where you have your slides available. | + | Our tile server introduces [[rootdir|root directories]]: virtual mounting points that can point to any of these types of storage, where you have your slides available. |
| Most importantly, you can configure your root-directories in a hybrid fashion, with some storage pointing to traditional hard disks, and other (perhaps long term) storage pointing to cloud resources. | Most importantly, you can configure your root-directories in a hybrid fashion, with some storage pointing to traditional hard disks, and other (perhaps long term) storage pointing to cloud resources. | ||
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| This hybrid configuration model also means you can scale easily over time: you can start with a setup whereby your slides are mostly placed on a (big) local hard disk. After a while, you switch over to your organization's network storage. Even at a later stage, you can transparently migrate to S3-compliant cloud storage. When you have an external collaborator that temporarily wants to share their slide collection with you, you can ask them to setup an FTP server and patch a root-directory through to that one. | This hybrid configuration model also means you can scale easily over time: you can start with a setup whereby your slides are mostly placed on a (big) local hard disk. After a while, you switch over to your organization's network storage. Even at a later stage, you can transparently migrate to S3-compliant cloud storage. When you have an external collaborator that temporarily wants to share their slide collection with you, you can ask them to setup an FTP server and patch a root-directory through to that one. | ||
| - | [[working_with_root_directories|Root-directory resources]] can have authentication and impersonation information attached to them. In addition, PMA.core has its own [[acl|access control lists]] to determine what [[groups]] and [[user_management|individual users]] can see and do (according to [[crud|the CRUD principle]]). | + | [[rootdir|Root-directory resources]] can have authentication and impersonation information attached to them. In addition, PMA.core has its own [[acl|access control lists]] to determine what [[groups]] and [[user_management|individual users]] can see and do (according to [[crud|the CRUD principle]]). |
| A comprehensive blog article on the subject of storage and image management is provided at [[https://realdata.pathomation.com|our blog]]. | A comprehensive blog article on the subject of storage and image management is provided at [[https://realdata.pathomation.com|our blog]]. | ||
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