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    Storage drivers overview
    • 17 Feb 2025
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    Storage drivers overview

    • Updated On 17 Feb 2025
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    Storage drivers enable communication between a system and storage devices, managing data transfers and ensuring compatibility. They connect applications to storage services like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud, simplifying data access. Designed for security, they ensure safe and efficient data operations.

    Context of Cloud Integration

    In the context of cloud integration, storage drivers become an essential component because they ensure that your integrated systems can seamlessly access and manipulate data in the cloud. They bridge the gap between your application's requests for data and the actual data storage in the cloud.

    Storage Driver Types

    Dataloop support the following types of cloud storage drivers:

    Search & Filter Storage Drivers

    The Storage Drivers tab's search & filter criteria are displays according to the Storage Drivers. The following list provides the specific criteria of search and filters for the Storage Drivers:

    • To search: You can search storage drivers by Driver Name.
    • To Filter: You can filter the listed drivers by the following criteria:
      • Provider:
        • AWS
        • GCP
        • Azure
      • Driver Type:
        • S3 Bucket
        • GCS Bucket
        • Blob Storage
        • Data Lake Storage Gen2

    List of Fields

    The column values are populated according to the storage drivers.

    Column NameDescription
    ProviderIt displays the name of the storage provider.
    Driver NameThe name of the storage driver. Click on the Copy Driver ID to copy it.
    Driver TypeIt displays the name of the storage driver type.
    Resource NameIt displays the name of the driver type.
    Integration NameIt displays the name of the integration you created on the Dataloop platform.
    Created atThe creation date of the storage driver.
    Created byThe Avatar of the user who created the storage driver. You can see the email ID of the user when you hover.
    Allow Delete ItemsA green tick icon appears when the option to enable deleting items from storage drivers through the Dataloop platform is activated.

    Storage Driver Actions

    Data Management page allows you to execute various tasks specific to your storage drivers, such as:

    • Create Storage Driver: Clicking on this allows you to create a storage driver as required.
    • Edit Storage Driver: Clicking on the Edit icon allows you to edit storage driver details including driver name, allow deleting items, etc.
    • Delete Storage Driver: Clicking on the Delete icon allows you to delete the selected storage driver.

    Learn more to manage storage drivers.

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