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Vendor: NVIDIA
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Scientific Information Officer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Jul 10, 2019
Product discussed: 6
It has helped us with the ability to distribute data to different data centers

Pros

"It has helped us with the ability to distribute data to different data centers. As part of our DR strategy, we have nodes automatically replicating data from one data center to the other. This makes it easier for us to not have to shift tapes around."

Cons

"On the controller features, there needs to be a bit more clean up of the user interface. There are a lot of options available on the GUI which might be better organized or compartmentalized. There are times when you are going through the user interface and you have to look around for where the setting may be. A little bit more attention to the organization of the user interface would be helpful."
JM
Enterprise Architect at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Jan 3, 2019
Gives us the flexibility to buy hardware from any vendor, and reduces our storage admin costs

Pros

"The biggest feature, the biggest reason we went with SwiftStack, rather than deploying our own model with OpenStack Swift, was their deployment model. That was really the primary point in our purchase decision, back when we initially deployed. It took my installation time from days to hours, for deployment in our environment, versus deploying OpenStack Swift ourselves, manually."

Cons

"[One] thing that I've been looking for, for years as an end user and customer, for any object store, including SwiftStack, is some type of automated method for data archiving. Something where you would have a metadata tagging policy engine and a data mover all built into a single system that would automatically be able to take your data off your primary and put it into an object store in a non-proprietary way - which is key."
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CG
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Apr 1, 2019
The platform is capable of scaling to very large capacities

Pros

"The performance is good. It is a secondary storage platform designed for archive and backup, so performance for the right use cases is very good. We have been pretty happy in that regard."

Cons

"The biggest room for improvement is the maturity of the proxyFS solution. That piece of code is relatively new, so most of our issues have been around the proxyFS. "
RT
Group Leader Online Data Services at Surfsara
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Aug 7, 2019
Compared to other storage systems, it takes a fraction of the manpower to run this solution

Pros

"The most valuable feature is its versatility. We use 1space and we can use it for almost anything: for our cloud service, for backups of VMs."

Cons

"At the moment we are using Erasure coding in an 8+4 setting. What would be nice is if, for some standard configurations like 15+4 and 8+4, there were more versatility so we could, for example, select 8+6, or the like."
PeerSpot user
System administrator at a library with 11-50 employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Jan 15, 2022
A nicely-done product that provides a lot of graphs and reports to see what's happening in the background and makes configuration easier

Pros

"The graphs are most valuable. They have a lot of graphs and reports that you can run to see what's happening in the background to configure OpenStack Swift. "

Cons

"It's very well done for what it's supposed to do, and I don't have anything to add, but I would like them to keep it available to the public. SwiftStack is going out of the market. NVIDIA purchased SwiftStack a couple of years ago, and they won't be making it available to the public anymore. Our license is up to March 31st."
PeerSpot user
Engineering Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Feb 22, 2021
Product discussed: Swift 2.21
We are able to dynamically grow storage at a lower cost

Pros

"The SwiftStack Controller, which is the web UI, provides out of band management. This has been one of the best features of it. It allows us to be able to do upgrades and look at performance metrics. It is a top feature and reason to choose the product."

Cons

"The file access needs improvement. The NFS was rolled out as a single service. It needs to be fully integrated into the proxy in a highly available fashion, like the regular proxy access is. I know it's on the roadmap."
PS
Head of Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Apr 17, 2019
The resiliency gives us better uptime than we could achieve with other products

Pros

"The scalability is phenomenal. It seems infinite, as long as you put enough storage in place, add enough nodes."

Cons

"I would like to see better client integrations, support for a broader client library. SwiftStack could be a little bit more involved in the client side: Python, Java, C, etc."
PeerSpot user
Software Engineer 3, Cloud Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of SwiftStack [EOL]
Aug 25, 2017
Product discussed: 5.4.0
It allows us to reduce the man hours needed for a deployment, although the management UI needs improvements, including more functionalities.