DataCore Swarm Documentation

Overview

DataCore Swarm provides a software-defined platform for data protection, archive, management, organization, and search at a massive scale. It radically simplifies your ability to manage, store, and protect data while allowing S3/ HTTP(S) access to any application, device, or end-user. Transforming your growing datasets into a flexible and immediately accessible content library, Swarm enables remote workflows and on-demand access.

With Swarm, you no longer need to migrate data into disparate storage systems for long-term preservation, delivery, and analysis. Consolidate all files, find the data you are looking for quickly, and reduce the total cost of ownership.

Delivering high levels of cyber-resilience, Swarm ensures protection against security threats and compliance with business and regulatory requirements. Additionally, benefits from the ability to seamlessly shift between protection methods based on custom policies. Data governance is automated from creation to expiration—resulting in storage that adapts to your business.

Seamlessly scale from a few hundred terabytes to multiple petabytes and even exabytes with any mix of standard x86 hardware and disks. This limitless solution combines scaling of capacity and throughput with universal access and the industry’s most flexible single-site and multi-site deployment options across core and edge environments.

Key Benefits

Cost Savings

  • Runs on any x86 hardware: flexibly mix and match vendors and components

  • Unlimited scalability

  • Streamlined administration

  • Power conservation built-in

Distributed Data Access

  • S3/HTTP(S) access to data

  • Multi-tenant capable

  • Granular access controls

  • Content portal for end-users

Robust Data Protection

  • High availability, BC/DR

  • High data durability

  • Data immutability (WORM)

  • Data integrity and compliance

Use Cases

Here are some popular use cases of Swarm catering to different industry requirements. There are numerous other applications of Swarm in organizations and service provider environments.

  • Active Archive
    Offloads data from primary NAS storage

  • Immutable Storage for Backups
    Defends against data loss and threat vectors

  • Nearline Archive
    Supports digital media workflows both in-facility and on-set (edge)

  • Origin Storage
    For OTT/VOD services and content delivery

  • Medical Imaging Archive
    Stores medical images, PACS, and VNA for healthcare sectors

  • Archive for Digital Asset Management
    Protects assets, enabling low-latency access

  • Data Lake Storage
    Handles massive workloads in research, big data, IoT, and AI/ML

  • Multi-tenant Storage
    Facilitates various cloud service offerings (e.g., StaaS)

  • Long-term Data Preservation
    -proofs content protection – no forklift upgrades

  • Alternative to Public Cloud and LTO Tape
    Best-suited for online, on-premises data storage

Flexible Deployment

Swarm provides flexibility in deployment as it’s highly available by design. With flexible deployment, you can add tenants and sites at any time. Swarm supports hot plug drives, adding/ retiring disks/nodes, and rolling upgrades of the full software stack—all with no service downtime.

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Packaged Hardware Appliances are also available from our partners. Contact DataCore for more information.

The containerized deployment of Swarm is supported with a Single Node Swarm setup.

Key Features

For a complete Swarm User Guide, see here.

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