Integrates with LDAP, Active Directory, and Linux PAM, as well as token-based authentication systems such as Amazon S3 API and SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On (SSO).
Data Services
WORM / Immutability
Ensures data is non-erasable and non-rewritable by supporting S3 object lock and enabling legal hold. These measures protect against cyberthreats, bit rot, and other data loss risks.
Data Integrity Seals
Verifies the authenticity of stored data against tampering or corruption. This is especially helpful for auditing and compliance.
Encryption
Secures data by converting it to an unreadable format preventing unauthorized access without a key. Encryption at rest and in transit are supported.
Retention Scheduling
Manages data lifecycle with predefined time periods for retaining and deleting data based on custom policies.
Custom Metadata
Allows users to add and modify metadata (tags, descriptions, etc.) to objects, enhancing searchability, categorization, and management.
Universal Namespace
Provides a consistent view of objects across domains, buckets, and sites for easy access. Uses human-readable uniform global identifiers to retrieve objects.
Synchronous Replication
Creates local and remote real-time copies of data for immediate recovery during disruptions. This minimizes downtime and ensures data high availability.
Asynchronous Replication & Disaster Recovery
Creates redundancy across geographically dispersed locations, enabling recovery from major site outages.
Erasure Coding
Splits data into segments, encodes, and stores across different disks. This increases data availability and resilience against failures.
Self-Healing
Proactively checks for bit rot and hardware failures. Automatically rebuilds and recovers data based on data protection policies.
Dynamic Caching
Automatically persists content in RAM based on access demand (high or low), ensuring optimal infrastructure performance.
Cloud Integration
Facilitates hybrid cloud usage by copying data to and from public clouds (AWS, Azure, etc.).
A unique feature of Swarm is that it supports both replication and erasure coding on the same node. You can set policies that shift between the two protection methods based on performance and budgetary requirements.
Operation & Insights
Swarm provides a host of capabilities to simplify operations for both administrators and end-users accessing data.
Identity & Access Management
End-user Self-service Portal
Intuitive web-based portal with distributed access over S3/HTTP(S) for on-demand content access, sharing, streaming, video clipping, and collaboration.
Ad Hoc Search & Query
Powered by Elasticsearch, Swarm enables metadata-aware search and query. Searches are dynamic, can be saved, & reused to speed up query building.
Monitoring & Reporting
Monitors hardware health and cluster capacity usage, supports SNMP and Prometheus for metrics export, and integrates with Grafana for historical performance analysis.
Multi-tenancy
Enables a centralized storage infrastructure to provision for distinct tenants and domains with metered quota allocation, resource management, and access control.
Command & Control
- Swarm offers command and control through its web console, REST APIs, third-party tools, and orchestration systems.
- Audit logs provide activity tracking and compliance monitoring.
- Metering can be used to report on usage metrics for analytics and billing generation.
- Quotas are set at the object, bucket, domain, and cluster level for granular bandwidth and capacity governance.
- S3 object lock is supported to achieve data immutability and ransomware defense.
- Darkive™ is a patented adaptive power conservation function that helps power down disks based on monitored periods of inactivity.
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