GP.Raw Storage

This Pattern offers functionality for the storage and retrieval of "unstructured data" at a single, logical location; optionally it provides advanced functionality ("intelligence") to administrators and/or consumers. It has the following characteristics: As examples: realizations of Raw Storage can include:
 * operates on data at the lowest abstraction level, i.e. "unstructured data" (e.g. bits and bytes),
 * located at a single logical location,
 * access by general or dedicated storage network facilities (indicated by Data Transport),
 * the ability to perform storage related "intelligent" tasks, such as replication, migration, encryption and data reduction. This intelligence is characterized as "back-end facing" intelligence; generally speaking the facility's consumers don't get (direct) access to it, only the administrators and back-end systems.
 * SAN storage cabinets,
 * (the back-end of) NAS appliances,
 * hard disk solutions such as RAID arrays.