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.
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!
