A server or end user can retrieve a storage object without needing to know its physical location
"The need for every node to be aware of the objects owned by other nodes, and even the concept of ownership of a piece of data by a physical node, goes away. This allows data to scale based on rules about the data itself rather than about the storage system." – Marc Staimer
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TERMS TO KNOW: node, data sovereignty
