SwiftStack [EOL] pros and cons

4.3 out of 5

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Pros & Cons summary

SwiftStack features scalable architecture that handles large amounts of data effortlessly with flexible deployment options suitable for various environments. It offers strong support for object storage APIs like S3 and Swift, ensuring high performance and reliability in data storage operations. However, the initial setup can be complex, proprietary features can be expensive, and there can be performance issues with large-scale deployments plus limited integration with certain third-party tools.

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PROS

Scalable and flexible architecture that adapts to various storage needs

Robust support for both object and file storage, ensuring versatility

Excellent performance and reliability in handling large data volumes

Seamless integration with existing infrastructure and cloud environments

Comprehensive API for easy management and automation

CONS

Lacks comprehensive support for complex network topologies.

Insufficient API documentation causes integration hassles.

Performance issues under heavy workloads.

Limited compatibility with certain legacy systems.

High learning curve for new users with limited tutorials available.

SwiftStack [EOL] Pros review quotes

Jim Merritt

Enterprise Architect at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 2, 2019

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.

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Scientif48eb

Scientific Information Officer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 10, 2019

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.

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Engineerd3fd

Engineering Manager at BAE Systems

Feb 22, 2021

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.

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Ron Trompert

Group Leader Online Data Services at Surfsara

Jul 29, 2019

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.

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Headcld09876

Head of Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 8, 2019

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

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Chris Gatch

Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Mar 31, 2019

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.

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reviewer1759539

System administrator at a library with 11-50 employees

Jan 12, 2022

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.

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SwiftStack [EOL] Cons review quotes

Jim Merritt

Enterprise Architect at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 2, 2019

[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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Scientif48eb

Scientific Information Officer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 10, 2019

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.

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Engineerd3fd

Engineering Manager at BAE Systems

Feb 22, 2021

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.

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Ron Trompert

Group Leader Online Data Services at Surfsara

Jul 29, 2019

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.

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Headcld09876

Head of Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 8, 2019

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.

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Chris Gatch

Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Mar 31, 2019

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.

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reviewer1759539

System administrator at a library with 11-50 employees

Jan 12, 2022

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.

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