FAST User Documentation
FAST - Flexible Access Storage Transcoder.
FAST presents the data from a Bluware VDS as a virtual file system. When applications interact with these local virtual files, FAST translates these requests into calls to retrieve data. The data is transcoded into the native application format without the application realizing the data is not physically within the file. This enables applications to be moved to the cloud and data to be moved to centrally located object storage in the cloud and without duplicating data on a local file system.
FAST provides access to both VDS storage on cloud as well as VDS files on a network or locally mounted file system.