We were discussing application virtualization and the migration of workloads:
We brought up how both application as well as storage tier benefit from virtualization and the automation of workload migration using tools. Object storage itself may be on a container facilitating easy migration across hosts. Since object storage virtualizes datacenters and storage arrays, it is itself at once a storage application as well as  a representation of unbounded storage space. Once the workloads have been migrated to object storage, both can then be moved around the cloud much more nimbly than they were if they used raw storage volumes. 
One of the challenges associated with migration is that Application Server - Storage Tier model has evolved to a lot more complex paradigms. There is no more just an application server and a database. In fact servers are replaced by clusters and nodes. Applications are replaced by modules and modules run on containers. Platform as a service has evolved to using Mesos and Marathon where even the storage volumes are moved around if they are not  a shared volume.  Data usually resides in the form of files and the database connectivity is re-established because the connection string does not change as the nodes are rotated. Marathon monitors the health of the nodes as the application and storage is moved around  In the object storage, the location of the object is arbitrary once the underlying storage is virtualized. Object storage itself may use a container that may make it portable but it is generally not the norm to move Object Storage around in a Marathon framework. If anything Object Storage is akin to a five hundred pound gorilla in the room.
Object Storage is very popular with certain content. Files directly map to objects. Multimedia content are also helpful to be served from object storage  Large files such as from Artifactory are also suitable for Object Storage. An entire cluster based file system may also be exported and this may be used with Object Store. Deduplication appliance may also provide benefit benefits in conjunction with an Object Storage. 
Object Storage is usually viewed as a storage appliance in itself. Therefore it provides a form of raw storage suitable for what can be viewed as objects. However a suite of connectors may be made available in the form of sdk, that enables data to move into object storage from well-known platforms. For example, data in a content-library can be moved into object storage with the help of a connector in the sdk. This is just one of the examples, there are several more.

#codingexercise
bool isDivisibleBy12(uint n)
{
return isDivisibleBy3(n) && isDivisbleBy4(n);
}