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 storageImmutable Storage for Backups
Defends against data loss and threat vectorsNearline Archive
Supports digital media workflows both in-facility and on-set (edge)Origin Storage
For OTT/VOD services and content deliveryMedical Imaging Archive
Stores medical images, PACS, and VNA for healthcare sectors
Archive for Digital Asset Management
Protects assets, enabling low-latency accessData Lake Storage
Handles massive workloads in research, big data, IoT, and AI/MLMulti-tenant Storage
Facilitates various cloud service offerings (e.g., StaaS)Long-term Data Preservation
-proofs content protection – no forklift upgradesAlternative 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.
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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