The goal of SwiftStack’s core storage is for apps to store and retrieve data without worrying about hard problems like durability, failure handling, bit rot detection, capacity scaling, and concurrent access. With SwiftStack, an app can write bytes into the storage system and later read them back out. No need to worry about anything else. […]
Metadata Life Cycle Organizations of today can easily generate and persist large amounts of data, but this does not come without a challenge: The question, “How can we store all of this data?” has been replaced with, “How can we derive value from all of this data?” Without a logical way to locate something or […]
As Cisco Live 2018 approaches, it’s a good time to reflect on what’s happened in the scale-out storage market (and with the Cisco UCS & SwiftStack solution)over the past 12 months. To do so, it’s helpful to note some of the broader industry context: major business publications are covering how data intelligence is reshaping many industries, […]
Introduction I recently had an opportunity to speak at HIMMS17—the conference “where the brightest minds in health and IT meet.” According to the session abstract, my job was to share case studies for integrating object storage and leveraging metadata to advance the state of the art in genomics research. I thought it might be useful […]
Proud to be recognized as a visionary As you can see in the media, analysis of Gartner’s latest analysis on the distributed filesystem and object storage category began within 30 hours of the research being published. SwiftStack will issue a press release on this research once we get approval back from Gartner, but in the […]
We’ve come home from another great Swift midcycle hackathon. We’ve released 2.10.0. We’re getting ready for the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of the review queue and what our respective employers are building on, around, and with Swift. What’s the bigger picture, though? What can we expect […]
On Tuesday, I visited the Intel Developer Forum at the Moscone Center in San Francisco along with John Dickinson (Swift co-founder and current PTL), which is dedicated to makers, developers, and hardware manufacturers. The halls of Moscone West were filled to the brim with hands-on tech demos, new products, and countless projects showing off the […]
SwiftStack, valued for providing the benefits of public cloud storage behind enterprise firewalls, today at Cisco Live announced it is collaborating with Cisco to further deliver a turnkey enterprise cloud solution that enables customers to innovate faster, and respond to market opportunities with start-up speed and enterprise reliability. The integration of SwiftStack 4.0 with Cisco […]
On July 1, the OpenStack Swift community completed the at-rest data encryption feature for Swift. I’d like to go over what this feature does, what it protects against, how it works, and where it should be used. At-rest encryption in Swift encrypts all object data, object etags, and any user metadata values set on objects. […]
A few weeks back, we announced SwiftStack 4.0 and one of the highlighted features was Metadata Search. For those of you who already have a SwiftStack cluster in production or are testing one out, you can use this feature now! This may be a bit confusing since the current version of SwiftStack is 3.12. Let […]
Today we announced SwiftStack 4.0, which includes a lot of great customer-driven functionality to help you manage your operations-at-scale. We also unveiled our product plan for the remainder of 2016 that will help enterprises on their journey to cloud storage. Let me take you through the two primary features you can expect to see from us […]
A few years ago, I kept hearing casual conversations about Ceph vs Swift. “Ceph’s going to win out and Swift will fade.” “Ceph cannot be used to scale out cloud storage.” Some called it a rivalry. I found it funny considering very few enterprises were actually using either. Last time I checked, it’s a rivalry […]
