Whitepaper · 10 pages · September 2026
Object Storage by Industry
Six buying paths, the S3 workflows each one runs, and the questions to settle before moving data
How six industries use S3-compatible object storage, what ZCP Object Storage supports today, how to choose between ZCP Object Storage and dedicated ZSoftly Cloud Storage, and a migration checklist.
- Object Storage
- S3
- Object Lock
- AI Data
- Migration
- Buying Paths
- 6
- Industries covered
- Compatible API
- S3
- Standard clients and SDKs
- Transfer Charges
- $0
- Data in and out
- Storage Models
- 2
- Shared or dedicated
Inside
What the paper covers
AI and Machine Learning
Datasets, checkpoints, evaluation artifacts and RAG source documents
SaaS and Software Vendors
Tenant uploads, exports, build artifacts and backup objects
Healthcare and Finance
Workflows and questions to settle, with no compliance claims
Media and Public Sector
Asset libraries, archives and datasets, with delivery scoped separately
Choosing a Storage Model
ZCP Object Storage or a dedicated, single-tenant ZCS cluster
Migration Checklist
Before, during and after the move, with a way back
Steps
The migration, step by step
- 01Inventory and classifyStep 1
- 02Choose model and regionStep 2
- 03Create and copyStep 3
- 04Verify and switchStep 4
- 05Retire the sourceStep 5
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