The most common implementation relies on versioning of S3 protocol objects and therefore the possibility of immutability in governance or compliance mode with DataCore SWARM.

This allows us to store immutable backup sets in order to guarantee our customers a local set for restoring IT production even in the event of a cyber attack.

The other use case is to couple DataCore SWARM with another archiving tool. This combination allows folders and files that are considered archives to be offloaded to large file servers.

Folders and files are moved from production environments that most often use expensive SSD or NVME drives to low-cost NL-SAS storage.

These unloads can be processed according to different Lifecycle policies on the archiving tool, management rules can then be applied to the objects stored on the SWARM DataCore.

We are using the DataCore Swarm solution as a service provider to store copy backups of our customers. We have two replicated clusters on two sites with 1PB each. The environment contains eight servers on each site for the different services and storage needed. The network is a full 10GB as recommended. 

We plan to offer file archiving and video storage services very soon. In addition, with another DataCore product, we will be able to automatically archive some old files to a low-cost storage compared to the primary storage.

We use it for customer archiving. Our customers also use it for their immediate payments, autonomous cloud, and on-premise object storage.