Core to SwiftStack is the ability to scale a cluster with a single namespace across multiple geographic regions. While this makes excellent use of multiple data centers (if you have them), your workflows may benefit from a hybrid cloud strategy. With Cloud Sync in SwiftStack, data can automatically and continuously be synchronized to Google Cloud Storage based on policies you define. The result is data lives wherever it is needed by your users and applications.
Extending your storage infrastructure to the public cloud allows you to more easily collaborate with external teams, leverage cloud bursting for faster compute, and take advantage of cost-effective offsite archiving capabilities using Amazon Glacier or Google Cloud Coldline.
Joe Arnold, founder and Chief Product Officer of SwiftStack, demonstrates how to synchronize video in a SwiftStack container/bucket with a bucket in Google Cloud Storage and then transcode that video using Google Container Engine. This is just one example of what you can do with data once it’s in the public cloud, because extending your private storage infrastructure to the public cloud is most powerful when you can use the scalable compute capabilities that it offers.
