Case Study: SwiftStack achieves scalable, lower-cost private cloud object storage with Seagate

New Levels of Scalability and TCO Savings With Open-Source Private Cloud Object Storage

SwiftStack needed a cost-effective way to keep up with explosive growth in unstructured data from web, mobile, SaaS, video, and other object-based applications. Traditional storage architectures were too complex, expensive, and hard to scale, prompting the company to look for a private cloud object storage approach that could deliver public-cloud-like accessibility without public cloud dependency. The vendor was Seagate, with SwiftStack private cloud storage powered by OpenStack Swift as the core platform.

Seagate’s solution paired SwiftStack’s software-defined object storage with the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform, using standard servers, Ethernet, and drive-level key/value access to simplify the storage stack. The result was a more scalable, highly durable, multi-tenant storage environment with no single point of failure, easier operations, and lower TCO. The case study says this approach can reduce total storage cost to about one-fourth to one-fifth of public cloud or traditional on-premise arrays, while improving density, efficiency, and manageability.

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