{"id":3705,"date":"2016-04-27T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2016-04-22T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:58:25","slug":"swiftstack-announces-object-storage-version-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/swiftstack-announces-object-storage-version-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"SwiftStack Announces Object Storage Version 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftstack.com\/about\/the-big-story\/\">SwiftStack<\/a> before, they do &#8220;object storage for the enterprise&#8221;, with the core product\u00a0built on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftstack.com\/openstack-swift\/\">OpenStack Swift<\/a>.\u00a0I recently had the opportunity to be briefed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mblandini\">Mario Blandini<\/a> on their 4.0 announcement. Mario describes them as &#8220;Like Amazon cloud but inside your DC and behind your firewall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>New SwiftStack 4.0 innovations introduced today (and available now or in the next 90 days) include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrated load balancing reducing the need for expensive dedicated network hardware and minimizing latency and bandwidth costs while scaling to larger numbers of storage nodes<\/li>\n<li>Metadata search increases business value with integrated third-party indexing and search services to make stored object data analytics-ready<\/li>\n<li>SwiftStack Drive is an optional desktop client that enables access to objects directly from desktops or laptops<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced management with new IPv6 support, capacity planning and advanced data migration tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00.png\" alt=\"Swift00\" width=\"710\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00.png 710w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the key points in this announcement is the metadata search\u00a0capability. Object storage is\u00a0not just about &#8220;cheap and deep&#8221;, and the way we use metadata can have a big impact on the value of the data, often to applications that didn&#8217;t necessarily generate the data in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Like all good scale out solutions, you don&#8217;t need to buy everything up front, just what you need to get started. SwiftStack aren&#8217;t in the hardware business though, so you&#8217;ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftstack.com\/product\/hardware\/\">rolling your own<\/a>. The hardware requirements for SwiftStack are <a href=\"https:\/\/swiftstack.com\/docs\/admin\/hardware.html#\">here<\/a>, and there&#8217;s also a reference architecture for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftstack.com\/cisco\/\">Cisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Futures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SwiftStack have plans to introduce &#8220;Swift File Access&#8221; in 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_File.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_File.png\" alt=\"Swift00_File\" width=\"521\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_File.png 521w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_File-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the benefits of this include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Scale-out file services; SMB and NFS \u2013 minimizes the need for gateways<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Fully bimodal &gt; files can come in over SMB and accessed through object APIs and visa versa<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Integrated into the proxy role &gt; performance scales independently of capacity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">SwiftStack also have plans to introduce &#8220;Object Synchronization&#8221; in 2016<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_ObjectSync.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_ObjectSync.png\" alt=\"Swift00_ObjectSync\" width=\"723\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_ObjectSync.png 723w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Swift00_ObjectSync-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">This will provide S3 Synchronization capability, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Replication of\u00a0objects to S3 buckets<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Policy-driven &gt; protecting and accessing files using centralized policies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3737; font-family: Effra-Regular; font-size: large;\">Supporting any cloud compatible with the S3 API<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">This is pretty cool as there&#8217;s a lot of momentum within enterprises to consume data in places where it&#8217;s needed, not necessarily where it&#8217;s created.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Object storage is hot, because folks love cloud, and object is a big part of that. I like what object can do for storage, particularly as it relates to metadata and scale out performance. I&#8217;m happy to see SwiftStack making a decent play inside the enterprise, rather than aiming to be just another public cloud storage provider. I think they&#8217;re worth checking out, particularly if you have data that could benefit from object storage without necessarily having live in the public cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not heard of SwiftStack before, they do &#8220;object storage for the enterprise&#8221;, with the core product\u00a0built on OpenStack Swift.\u00a0I recently had the opportunity to be briefed by Mario Blandini on their 4.0 announcement. Mario describes them as &#8220;Like Amazon cloud but inside your DC and behind your firewall&#8221;. 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