The main benefit of OceanStor Pacific multi-protocol interworking feature is reducing the footprint of hardware.

The main benefit of OceanStor Pacific multi-protocol lossless interworking feature is not reducing the footprint of hardware, but eliminating the need for data copy among different systems. OceanStor Pacific has a multi-protocol lossless interworking feature that allows one copy of data to be shared with multiple services using different protocols such as NFS, SMB, S3, or HDFS. This feature avoids data copy among different systems, which improves the efficiency and performance of data access and analysis. It also simplifies the management and reduces the complexity of the system. Reducing the footprint of hardware is a secondary benefit of this feature, as it lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) with less hardware investment, power consumption, and maintenance costs.