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Most use cases for Swarm involve ingesting petabytes of unstructured data, such as image, video, and document files, which must be secured, preserved, searched, and retrieved on demand.

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Data tiering

• Relocation of data from traditional filers to object storage

• Scheduled tiering based on policy

• Automated recall when an access request is made

• Transparent access to the end user

• “Cheap and deep” object-store tier to reduce filer expansion costs

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Remote replication and disaster recovery

• Automated replication from a local object store to a remote object store

• Data is usually populated in a local store, then replicated to remote/DR

• “Hot” sites can also act as replication targets/DR for each other

• Can be whole-site replication or policy based (per domain)

• Varying complexity in replication topologies supported (site-to-site, M to N, single or bi-directional)

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Managed service (“Storage as a Service”)

• Storage protocol endpoints made available to service subscribers

• Support for multiple RESTful access protocols

• SSL/TLS

• Provides authentication and authorization

• Allows for metering and billing

• Supports quota control

• Multi-tenancy (individuals, business organizations, business units)

Hybrid Cloud (local storage with Cloud)

• Local object store integrated with a cloud service endpoint (such as Azure)

• “Copy to Cloud” for backup and/or publication of data

• “Retrieve from Cloud” for data recovery

• Lower CapEx when meeting backup/replication/DR requirements

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