Why Software Defined Storage?

SwiftStack - Software Defined Storage for object storage.

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OpenStack™ Swift

Simple No more sharding. Reduce the cost of development with a single, flat namespace for all your applications.

Eliminate Vendor Lock-in OpenStack Swift is open source. Change providers without changing your application.

Scales Store and serve content for a massive number of users via http. Scale to petabytes of storage.

Low Cost Choice of industry standard hardware that is available from multiple vendors.

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SWIFT SPOTLIGHT

With SwiftStack’s help, Wikimedia uses OpenStack Swift to serve images, audio and video to millions of Wikpedia users. Wikipedia is a top-10 web property with intense demands on its infrastructure.

Gartner’s September 2012 report on OpenStack stated that Swift is “the most stable and widely-adopted part of OpenStack, with a successful operational track record at scale, commonly used by cloud IaaS providers and has become the most common implementation of object-based, S3-style storage.”
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