DataCore Swarm Reviews

Name: DataCore Swarm
Brand: DataCore
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

5.0 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is DataCore Swarm?

Swarm provides a platform for data protection, management, organization and search at massive scale. You no longer need to migrate data into disparate solutions for long-term preservation, delivery and analysis. Consolidate all files on Swarm, find the data you are looking for quickly, and reduce total cost of ownership by continuously evolving hardware and optimizing use of your resources.

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DataCore Swarm is the #13 ranked solution in top File and Object Storage solutions. PeerSpot users give DataCore Swarm an average rating of 10.0 out of 10. DataCore Swarm is most commonly compared to Red Hat Ceph Storage: DataCore Swarm vs Red Hat Ceph Storage. DataCore Swarm is popular among the small business segment, accounting for 45% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 34% of all views.

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Cedric

Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution needs simpler architecture; we need many servers to start using the solution. We know that a project is in the roadmap to put the services in a container and we think it will be a very good thing. The second thing would be to improve the updates of the solution. We need a "long" time to pass between the patches on each new version. Again, the containers would be a solution to that. The last improvement for us is already in the pipeline, and we have been able to test it. It's an all-in-one server solution. This system allows us to do the primary copy of the data on a unique server that we can easily move and then transfer the data inside the data center.

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Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at INTEGRA SYSTEMS

The product currently requires a significant number of servers to start. There are also network prerequisites to be met in order to guarantee good security of the architecture, which means that the product is only available to large customers. Besides, the license starts at 100TB. An Appliance version has been developed since my first review with a container-based architecture that allows DataCore SWARM to be offered with much lower volume licenses. This new architecture allows adoption by all types of customers. The product has been evolving since the acquisition by DataCore, but maintaining and updating the product is not always easy and needs to be improved. For now, we only use DataCore SWARM for a few use cases and therefore a small part of the existing functionalities. With use we will perhaps have more criticism of the product but not for the moment!

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Jeffery Pinto

IT Consultant at Power Source Sdn Bhd

We use it for customer archiving. Our customers also use it for their immediate payments, autonomous cloud, and on-premise object storage I find its flexibility valuable. That makes it easier when you're doing some upgrades. Some other brands force you to stick with that brand. With Caringo, any…

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DataCore Swarm mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of DataCore Swarm in the File and Object Storage category stands at 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The ability for the solution to use any new hardware quickly and without administration is a great thing in the context of hosting."
"The first feature is compatibility with the S3 protocol. DataCore SWARM allows you to quickly have an on-premise, robust and scalable environment that is natively compatible with the S3 protocol.The functionalities used are therefore derived from the S3 protocol, notably versioning and therefore the possibility of configuring immutability in governance or compliance mode.The object metada can be enriched with the addition of tags to subsequently enable filtering and searching.Configuring and using DataCore SWARM is simple and flexible.It is very easy to create domains, tenants and buckets for different use cases with various authentications.The cluster architecture also allows replication between different clusters at different configured levels (Cluster / Domains / ...)A web interface for browsing the content of existing buckets allows simple and rapid manipulation of certain objects such as sharing via a link or cropping a video.Finally, the physical architecture of the solution is based on an x86 server and its scale-up or scale-out evolution is very simple by adding disks or servers."
"I find its flexibility valuable."

Room for Improvement

"The solution needs simpler architecture."
"The product currently requires a significant number of servers to start.There are also network prerequisites to be met in order to guarantee good security of the architecture, which means that the product is only available to large customers. Besides, the license starts at 100TB.An Appliance version is being developed with an architecture based on containers which will make it possible to offer DataCore SWARM to everyone.The product has been evolving since the acquisition by DataCore, but maintaining and updating the product is not always easy and needs to be improved.For now, we only use DataCore SWARM for a few use cases and therefore a small part of the existing functionalities.With use we will perhaps have more criticism of the product but not for the moment!"
"The pricing can definitely be better."

Pricing

"The first installation brick is expensive but the upgrades are extremely simple and granular by adding disks or nodes."
"You pay for what you use. For example, if you use one terabyte, you just pay for that one terabyte. But the pricing could always be better"

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

34%

Comms Service Provider

17%

Financial Services Firm

Legal Firm

University

Wholesaler/Distributor

Educational Organization

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Retailer

Logistics Company

Transportation Company

Government

Construction Company

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DataCore Swarm was previously known as Caringo Swarm.

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