DataCore Swarm Reviews

Name: DataCore Swarm
Brand: DataCore
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)

5.0 out of 5

4 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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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. Based on the analysis of the 4 most recent DataCore Swarm reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.6. (Among the highest in the category). 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 41% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 25% 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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Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

We utilize DataCore Swarm for backups, appreciating its high availability and immutability. Transitioning from tape backups improved our efficiency. However, the installation process is complex, particularly when upgrading from CentOS to Rocky. We also considered Huawei's Pacific, but it was expensive.

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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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Valuable Features

DataCore Swarm's valuable features include flexibility, S3 protocol compatibility, scalability, and robust architecture. Users appreciate its ability to work with any hardware, user-friendly interfaces, and cluster replication. Its support for erasure coding ensures resilience, while object locking enhances data security. The platform's capability to scale efficiently by adding disks or servers and create domains, tenants, and buckets easily is highly regarded. Immutability and a self-healing system are key for data integrity and availability.

"With DataCore Swarm, we have transitioned from tape-based backups, which were long, to Swarm, making the process more rapid and efficient."
"DataCore Swarm is highly available."
"The ability for the solution to use any new hardware quickly and without administration is a great thing in the context of hosting."

Room for Improvement

Pricing and flexibility need improvement for DataCore Swarm, as it should offer objective storage for various files. Many servers are necessary at the start, limiting availability to large customers. An easier architecture with container-based solutions could help. Updates and upgrade processes from CentOS to Rocky are complicated, requiring enhancement. A more streamlined installation process would benefit users, and a simpler server requirement could aid smaller companies in adopting the technology.

"The main issue currently is the hard installation process."
"The main issue currently is the hard installation process."
"The solution needs simpler architecture."

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"

Popular Use Cases

DataCore Swarm is used for customer archiving, immediate payments, autonomous cloud, and on-premise object storage. It supports immutable backup sets for IT production restoration during cyber attacks. It is coupled with other tools to offload archive folders to low-cost NL-SAS storage. Users implement file archiving and video storage services, using replicated clusters and dynamic archiving. They plan to expand with another DataCore to automatically archive old files.

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Comms Service Provider

20%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Legal Firm

University

Wholesaler/Distributor

Educational Organization

Real Estate/Law Firm

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Retailer

Healthcare Company

Transportation Company

Government

Logistics Company

Construction Company

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DataCore Swarm was previously known as Caringo Swarm.

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