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.

For us, the scalability is very important. The ability for the solution to use any new hardware quickly and without administration is a great thing in the context of hosting. 

The erasure coding helps us to have a highly resilient solution. The system is a self-healing architecture allowing us to replace the deffectuous hardware peacefully. 

The replication feature is also important. We need to offer great security to our customers (with two data centers) to increase the availability of data. 

Object locking was a prerequisite, as the data must be immutable.

I find its flexibility valuable. That makes it easier when you're doing some upgrades. Some other brands force you to stick with that brand. With Caringo, any machine will work. It's also user-friendly, and I'm happy with the dashboards and the customization.