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Modern processors have improved rapidly over recent decades and disk storage has failed to keep pace with this development rate. Object-based storage was proposed as an alternative interface in order to close the gap between the processing units and the storage components. Object-based storage simplifies data representation and increases the intelligence of storage components by offloading data management tasks from the host filesystem to the storage. However, we believe that objectbased storage features have not been fully explored. In this work, we first introduce an active storage framework we developed for an object-based storage platform. Specifically, we show how to enable active storage by exploiting the object-based storage features. Then, we discuss how the active storage framework can be used in order to improve the scalability, reliability and usability of parallel storage systems.