Businesses are modernizing - gathering more data, and building new applications that are cloud-native, while looking to leverage data both on-premises and in public clouds. They are starting to invest in or considering machine...
Businesses are modernizing - gathering more data, and building new applications that are cloud-native, while looking to leverage data both on-premises and in public clouds. They are starting to invest in or considering machine...
Once an organization migrates data to and reaps the benefits of using the cloud, they often want more. Multi-cloud is the number one request of organizations initiating or expanding their cloud presence. These organizations want...
If we've played our cards right, you'll be up to date on the storage goings-on of the week. Otherwise you'll be lost in the shuffle. Here's a hand full of aces, kings and queens – and don't forget the joker.
SwiftStack launches single namespace for its object and file storage to ease data access, migration, management and search across private and public clouds.
SwiftStack recently announced 1space, and I was lucky enough to snaffle some time with Joe Arnold to talk more about what it all means. I thought it would be useful to do a brief post, as I really do like SwiftStack, and I feel...
1space is also a new open source project, and is joined as new SwiftStack open source endeavours by MetaSync, which like 1space, also brings new multi-cloud technologies to the open source community.
The days of on-site data management are long gone, as businesses continue to grow and expand, along with their needs for data storage. Cloud storage has been the most used alternative, with a growing number of businesses turning...
The days of the cloud as a single, homogenous entity are long gone. Going forward, you'll likely have a multi-cloud storage strategy and work with multiple service providers.
Microservices and containers have created a world of interoperable cloud-based services that can be moved seamlessly from one platform to another with minimal change. An area that has lagged, however, is providing data that can...
SwiftStack offers hybrid cloud storage software for customers that require universal access to petabytes of unstructured data in a single namespace. Media and entertainment companies, life sciences companies and web-based...
Multicloud storage strategy allows for the shifting of data across public clouds so you can avoid lock-in to a single provider, reduce cost and improve workload efficiency.
Cloud Storage in 2018 - Predictions for a New Era in the Information Age If anyone needs a reminder as to disruption in how vendors serve IT organizations, look no further than these two statements of fact:
The Beginning of SwiftStack and its Eureka Moment. Bay area based SwiftStack which began operations in 2011, is a major player in the hybrid cloud storage space for enterprise level companies. The company was the vision of...
The desired final step of a cloud strategy is to use the services available in the cloud to the fullest extent possible. The problem is for most organizations the first step, leveraging the cloud for backup or archive, which...
By StorageNewsletter.co SwiftStack, Inc. announced the availability of Universal Access for classic and cloud-native applications in SwiftStack 6.
By Dan Frith: PenguinPunk.net I haven’t covered SwiftStack in a little while, and they’ve been doing some pretty interesting stuff ... I was lucky enough to snaffle 30 minutes with Mario Blandini and he kindly took me through the...
By Carol Sliwa: SearchStorage.TechTarget.cim New SwiftStack 6.0 storage software supports Universal Access to data with added support for SMB/NFS file protocols to go with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift object APIs.
Some storage architects have been looking at object storage as the unstructured data heir apparent to legacy network attached storage (NAS). Object storage is cost-effective, scales well and has rich capabilities for data...
Anders Tjernlund, a successful entrepreneur and Silicon Valley venture-funded company co-founder who began his journey in marketing courses at Southeast Missouri State University, will return to campus to share his career...
SwiftStack’s leadership team appreciated being selected a visionary in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. The vendor even put out a press release celebrating Gartner’s inclusion of...
By Chris Mellor: The Register If a region goes down or an application has to be moved, data is automatically accessed on nodes in another region without requiring any changes.
By Mark Cox: ChannelBuzz.ca SwiftStack adds some significant capabilities around public cloud archiving, synchronization, and multi-region clusters – and indicates that much bigger news will be coming in a month.
Organizations of all sizes are increasingly using public cloud infrastructure, but those with hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data find the shift to cloud more complex, disruptive, and inflexible than it is presumed. The...
You will go to the cloud...but it’s not as easy as you think. Whether for functional need, budgetary alignment, or due to top-down pressure, all universities will move to the public cloud at some level. If an organization has...
Swiftstack was formed in the early days of public cloud computing when tech giants like Amazon and Google were getting into the fray. The San Francisco company saw a market opportunity in creating storage products for private...
How Pac-12’s expansion to cloud-based storage allowed even more streams and stores cost-effectively. $70.05 billion: That’s the projected value of the global video streaming market in 2021, according to the market research firm...
Customers of Cisco’s UCS 3260 Storage Server can run any software defined storage product that is available as a software-only product. The question is how does one pick among-st the many that are available? Understanding the...
The problem with the public cloud has always been physics. We like the idea of being able to access our data anytime anywhere, but the reality often falls short. It takes a lot of horsepower to get data from point A to point B –...
Cloud providers that have tried to best Amazon Web Services at their own game have not met with success. To avoid winding up scrap metal in the AWS derby, Google is taking a detour; by offering enterprises services honed for...
SwiftStack have announced a collaboration with Google Cloud Platform to take its object storage system into the multi-cloud world. Storage vendors tend to take one of two approaches to cloud. One is to run their software on cloud...
SwiftStack 5 object storage software upgrade enables two-way data synchronization between on-site private cloud storage and public cloud storage from Google and Amazon.
Blasts data between on-prem and public cloud SwiftStack v5's Cloud Sync provides two-way replication between on-premises data centres and Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 and Glacier. Open-source object storage SwiftStack software...
In anthropology, the missing link is a hypothetical concept of an extinct creature that lies halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their ancestors. Applying that general idea to software-defined storage...
Software has an insatiable appetite for today’s world. Serving as the straw stirring the drink, innovation is driving the software-defined and SaaSy reality of today and opportunity of tomorrow. Throw in the cloud, and the sky is...
Object storage provider SwiftStack Inc. has added hybrid cloudsynchronization to its OpenStack-based software controller. SwiftStack Cloud Sync allows data or subsets of data to exist simultaneously behind a firewall and in...
Enableing higher usage of media assetsThis is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on 2016.09.16 Vizrt Ltd. and SwiftStack, Inc. announced a private cloud storage solution for Viz One that will enable a higher usage...
Cisco has decided to get into object storage with its UCS servers – and has done so with a SwiftStack reseller deal, avoiding object suppliers allied to its server competitors.
This week at Cisco Live, SwiftStack announced it is partnering with Cisco to integrate SwiftStack 4.0 with Cisco Metapod. This partnership enables Cisco enterprise customers to build public cloud storage capabilities into their...
SwiftStack is integrating its object storage technology with Cisco systems, which SwiftStack CEO Don Jaworski says will boost Cisco's storage play and help channel partners transition customers to the cloud.
Today at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, SwiftStack announced that it has entered a reseller agreement with Cisco. The two companies state that this agreement will further enable the delivery of a turnkey enterprise cloud solution...
Scaling storage for more than 2 million users searching for their roots. Searching for the roots of your family tree? Some 2 million paying subscribers have uncovered their family history on Ancestry.com, the largest for profit...
Joe Arnold on Ethernet accessed object drives and more Interview Open source OpenStack-focused, object storage startup SwiftStack has early involvement with Seagate's object storage-focussed Kinetic disk drives, the ones needing...
Welcome to this week's episode of PopUpTechTalks, the show by and for technologists. What's on your mind these days? Tell us and we'll help share your inner tech voice. In this week's episode, Swiftstack's VP of Marketing, Mario...
Timothy Prickett Morgan November 3, 2015 The hyperscale datacenter operators of the world take a certain kind of pride in breaking technologies and finding new and better ways to scale compute, networking, and storage. But as...
Object storage is, at least conceptually, the perfect answer to many of the longstanding issues with data storage, such as the excessively long rebuild times experienced with high-capacity storage devices, parity overhead, and...
When it comes to making the move to object storage these days, IT organizations are in a bit of a quandary. In theory at least, most of them would prefer to make use of industry standards such as OpenStack to access object...
The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome SwiftStack as a corporate sponsor. The San Francisco-based company offers innovations that power object storage for enterprises. Built on OpenStack Swift, its solution offers a unique...
In the beginning of the open source OpenStack cloud effort, there were two projects - Nova Compute and Swift Storage. Swift is an integrated part of most OpenStack distributions but it is also the focus for a standalone company...
As for software-defined storage, Ubuntu Advantage Storage enables enterprises to deploy their storage services on commodity hardware clusters and route support calls to specialist providers, with Canonical as Level 1 support...
"At-home" production is a modestly growing trend in the sports broadcasting industry, but no one does it as efficiently and effectively as Pac-12 Networks, a SwiftStack customer. Using a conference-wide IP network, P12N is able...
THE 451 GROUP SwiftStack is simultaneously riding two growing waves in enterprise IT–OpenStack and object storage–and the company continues to make progress in winning some real business as a result ...
CIO REVIEW Users today are doing most of their work on smaller systems and devices, so the applications on devices are smaller, while the heavier parts of the applications are getting larger.
Techtarget If your firm's IT department has the skills set, OpenStack object or block storage might be a good idea, analyst George Crump said. When it comes to developing the supporting storage infrastructure, OpenStack only...
Openstack SuperUser Today, we sit down with Doug Soltesz the Vice President and CIO of Budd Van Lines, a national trucking company that moves over 6,000 families every year. Budd Van Lines is using OpenStack to backup its data...
VENTUREWIRE SwiftStack Inc., which is commercializing part of the open-source cloud software OpenStack, raised another $16 million in funding. The Series B round was led by OpenView Venture Partners and takes total funding to $23...
Business-Software.com It's becoming important for enterprises to adopt solutions that will effectively safeguard their files. That's why more companies are turning to software-defined storage models for safer and more affordable...
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE Two of the latest high-profile converts to the open source cloud architecture are BMW and Time Warner Cable. Both have recently stood up OpenStack clouds but went about it in very different ways ... The...
ZDNET PARIS — In 2010, the OpenStack Summit in San Antonio, TX had 250 attendees. Fast forward and the 2014 OpenStack Summit has 4,600 registered members from 59 countries and hundreds of companies ranging from start-ups to...
TECHCRUNCH OpenStack, the fast-growing open source cloud computing platform that now has the backing of more than 200 companies, is holding its semiannual developer conference in Paris this week. With over 4,500 attendees, it’s...
SILICONANGLE With data analytics requiring the ability to rapidly increase computing capacity in a cost-efficient manner and the cloud providing effectively infinite scalability with a low barrier to entry, the two megatrends...
TALKIN' CLOUD Each week Talkin' Cloud compiles a list of cloud computing financing stories for readers who might have missed the news earlier in the week. This week's column features funding news from SwiftStack, GreenQloud,...
TECHTARGET SwiftStack CEO Joe Arnold takes stock of the competitive landscape for his company's OpenStack-based object storage software and future product direction.
FORBES Many folks, particularly in the open source community, have been pushing for some time to move to commodity hardware with more sophisticated software to control that hardware rather than proprietary systems. This is true...
TECHTARGET The San Francisco-based vendor sells a commercially supported version of open source OpenStack Object Storage, more commonly known by its project code name, Swift. SwiftStack tacks on a proprietary management system...
SILICONANGLE OpenStack continues to draw interest from the venture capital community, with SwiftStack Inc. raising $16 million on Monday to make the cloud operating system more attractive for ingesting the vast amounts of...
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE SwiftStack wants to make open source storage software work really well on commodity hardware, says founder and CEO Joe Arnold, whose OpenStack Swift-based software-defined storage company recently raised a $...
TALKIN' CLOUD SwiftStack is preparing to expand its marketing and sales efforts with a new round of venture capital funding. The San Francisco-based software-defined storage company has secured $16 million in Series B financing...
DATAMATION As cloud computing gains adoption, so too does the need for storage. SwiftStack, one of the lead contributors to the open-source Swift OpenStack storage project, this week announced that it has raised a new Series B $...
OPENSOURCE.COM When you want to learn about object storage in OpenStack, John Dickinson is the guy to ask. John is the Director of Technology at SwiftStack, a company which relies on the OpenStack Swift project to provide...
FORBES It's always handy in the technology industry to look at previous major industry shifts and apply those to adjacent areas. It is useful because it helps commentators to make predictions about how changes will impact on...
GIGAOM Software-defined storage startup SwiftStack took in a $16 million Series B investment round, which brings total funding to $23.6 million. Besides using some of the cash for sales and marketing, the company plans to improve...
THE REGISTER Interview OpenStack-using startup SwiftStack has got itself $16m in B-round funding, raising the total cash invested amount to $23.6m. Why should we care? CEO Joe Arnold kindly told us. As a recap the business was...
VENTUREBEAT SwiftStack, a startup that has built object-storage software based on the Swift object-storage portion of OpenStack's open-source cloud software, is announcing today a $16 million funding round, following on months of...
TECHCRUNCH The open source OpenStack platform is seeing increased adoption in the enterprise and with that, the ecosystem of vendors around the platform is also growing, On the storage side, SwiftStack offers enterprises an...
REUTERS PE HUB San Francisco-based SwiftStack, a software defined storage firm, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. The investors were OpenView Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, Storm Ventures and UMC Capital.
EWEEK More data is being collected each day across devices, systems and networks, and the velocity of this data collection is picking up speed. With all this new data, however, come new challenges relating to capacity, security...
CRN While businesses increasingly see the benefit of storing data in the cloud, few want to move all their data to an off-site provider. Instead, businesses are more likely to keep part of their data on-premise, whether for...
VENTUREBEAT Every day, hundreds of thousands of devices are newly connected to the Internet. Smart refrigerators, activity monitors, security cameras and more — devices previously only plugged into a power outlet — are connected...
TECHTARGET Object storage can be intimidating to some companies, but it no longer is to Budd Van Lines. Budd Van Lines is running three SwiftStack nodes with 40 TB of storage each, and plans to outfit remaining offices this year.
CHANNELNOMICS Channelnomics interviews SwiftStack CEO Joe Arnold about the company and what new advances software-defined storage is bringing to the IT world.
New release of OpenStack Swift brings storage policies Object storage with OpenStack Swift gained an important feature in yesterday's 2.0 release with the addition of storage policies. John Dickinson, Swift Program Technical Lead...
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE OpenStack Swift is cloud storage software for storing and retrieving lots of data through a simple API. The latest 2.0 release introduces storage policies, which come after a year of work from many...
ENTERPRISE STORAGE GUIDE Startup vendor SwiftStack has announced that their OpenStack Swift based object storage platform has reached the milestone of version 2.0 on June 17th. What makes this an interesting release, aside from...
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE SwiftStack launched release 2.0 of its software defined object storage platform that comes with Swift, the object storage portion of OpenStack, an open source cloud architecture. SwiftStack wants to help...
TECHTARGET SwiftStack Inc. this week unveiled version 2.0 of its eponymous object storage software, featuring a gateway that enables customers to integrate their file-based applications.
ITBUSINESSEDGE To one degree or another, object-based storage is in the future of just about every enterprise. In fact, most of the storage services in the cloud today are enabled by object-based storage systems. SwiftStack wants...
SEARCHSTORAGE All signs pointed to continuing momentum for OpenStack storage technology, including Cinder block storage and Swift object storage, last week in Atlanta at the semiannual conference devoted to the open source...
OPENSOURCE.COM There's something different about OpenStack Summit Atlanta. ... I can sum up my experience from the first three days in one word: excitement!
THE REGISTER Seagate's Kinetic disk drive has had its open source program expanded with APIs and libraries. Meanwhile, HGST has just announced its own Ethernet disk and SSD storage technology. Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack, said...
SILICONANGLE The first day of this week's OpenStack Summit in Atlanta centered on hybrid computing and the new community marketplace the governing body of the project has rolled out in hopes of establishing greater product...
SYS-CON MEDIA SDN Journal: Article - Lower costs and increase control
DZONE SwiftStack is based on the OpenStack storage project, Swift, and helps operations teams implement and manage an easy-to-use, multi-tenant and highly scalable private cloud storage platform...
SILICONANGLE Things are looking bright for SwiftStack as the rapid growth in unstructured information continues to drive the adoption of object storage...
VIRTUAL STRATEGY MAGAZINE As companies continue on their individual journeys, they will look to harness some of the same advantages that big operators like Amazon and Google do.
CRN The storage industry is getting ready for a couple of massive shifts in the business, with hardware array sales down, flash storage and SSD sales rising fast, and software-defined storage technology threatening to disrupt the...
VMBLOG Open storage technologies are not new. Odds are the cloud storage that you and those you know are using today is open source software...
OPENSTACK FOUNDATION Private cloud storage with scalability to 10 Billion images for the leader in in integrated travel and expense management
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE Object Storage Goes Global - One feature that is a little more under the radar but of significant importance is global clusters for object storage. "The global clustering feature allows you to take your...
OPENSTACK FOUNDATION I'm happy to report a lot of exciting things are happening in Swift, specifically around the community participation and growing ecosystem. The total number of contributors to OpenStack Object Storage reached...
WIRED Cloud computing isn't just a new way of hosting and running applications. It's also a new way to think about how applications are designed in the first place, how they store and retrieve data...
VENTUREBEAT Interactive wanted more privacy than what would’ve been possible through a public cloud, and thus it went down the private route. But instead of going with one vendor or open-source environment...
SILICONANGLE John Furrier welcomed Josh McKenty and Joe Arnold to discuss the ever maturing OpenStack platform. Furrier began by noting how OpenStack has really resonated with enterprises...
ROBERT SCOBLE SwiftStack was started by a guy who used to build infrastructure for businesses on top of Amazon's Web Services. Here Joe Arnold CEO of SwiftStack (one of the world's top authorities on software defined storage)...
451 RESEARCH Unstructured data growth is putting pressure on many already-creaking storage environments. Although object storage has been around for a decade, mainstream adoption has been elusive. Is this now a more realistic...
INFOWORLD Object storage system delivers scalability, flexibility, and extensive control over data stored in the cloud San Francisco-based SwiftStack has announced the general availability of its private cloud storage product....
PRWEB Flexible, Private Cloud Storage Paired with Vendor-neutral Hardware Silicon Mechanics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing clusters, announces that it is now providing...
THE REGISTER Software-defined storage company SwiftStack has announced the general availability of its OpenStack-based object store, and claims it already has "multiple petabytes" under management...
SEARCHCLOUDSTORAGE The OpenStack development community has begun an initiative to introduce erasure codes to its open source Swift object storage...
DELL TECHCENTER Dell: Could you tell us about Swiftstack and Swift for those of us who may not know what it is?
GIGAOM For software that brings the flexibility of public-cloud infrastructure to storage on premise and in private clouds. SwiftStack lands a $6.1 million Series A round of funding for software that brings the flexibility of...