🧵Akave Cloud O3: Three Version Releases, Enterprise-Grade Features, and an Upcoming GUI In Brief: Akave has released O3 versions 1.2.0 through 1.3.0, enhancing security, accelerating I/O speeds, adding Identity and Access Management (IAM), cache management, and AWS-like paging. The "Cactus Fruit" graphical user interface (GUI) is coming soon. 1/ Three O3 Releases in September Akave has released O3 versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, and 1.3.0. These updates improve data security, storage integrity, and operator control. Major upgrades include IAM, cache management, version synchronization, kernel-level file movement, and AWS-like paging. 2/ Security and Governance O3 adds full IAM functionality, providing AWS-like user, key, and policy controls. Buckets now encrypt data by default. The v1.2.0 release used AES-256 encryption, but later switched to AES-128 for improved speed and memory efficiency, while retaining the option to configure AES-256. 3/ Secure Data Handling The new object removal process now includes full cleanup of ACLs, tags, versions, and retention data, and supports a dry run mode for auditing. A streaming tail verifies object integrity in real time, ensuring data security without sacrificing throughput. 4/ Performance and Stability Parallel I/O paths and ordered assembly improve stability under load. Kernel-assisted file transfers reduce latency. Buffering optimizations reduce memory usage and latency for multi-part uploads, improving responsiveness for large datasets. 5/ Enterprise-Grade Operations Versioning is fully supported, with a tool for adding version IDs to legacy data. The O3 CLI includes new commands for listing, syncing, and certificate management. Cache control introduces TTL (Time to Live), LRU (Least Recently Used) limits, and usage-based eviction mechanisms to improve reliability. 6/ Protocol Layer Upgrades Akave has integrated Proof of Data Possession (PDP) at the protocol layer. Hot storage nodes can retrieve lost data blocks, accelerating repairs. A unified CID builder now ensures consistent content hashes between SDKs and nodes. 7/ Graphical User Interface: "Cactus Fruit" Akave's trustless graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed, providing comprehensive management of buckets and keys, as well as access policies. It supports user registration, two-factor authentication, and object operations. A public preview is planned for the end of October. 8/ Next Steps Upcoming features include read/write management of PDPs in operator tools and policy-based lifecycle control.