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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) today released new capabilities called Storage Policies, the most significant feature update since the project’s inception ...

OpenStack is built up from many different modules that cover virtual machines/compute (Nova), object storage (Swift), block storage (Cinder), networking (Neutron), dashboard (Horizon), identity ...

django-storage-swift allows Django applications to use OpenStack Swift as a file storage layer. Reads/writes files into/out of Swift. Automatically derives the correct URL to allow files to be ...

OpenStack Swift is a distributed object storage system designed to scale from a single machine to thousands of servers. Swift is optimized for multi-tenancy and high concurrency. Swift is ideal for ...

Since its inception, OpenStack Swift stores data using its own distributed storage implementation. A new feature, called storage policies, was added in Juno and enables other storage systems to extend ...

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Thanks to new storage policy support, OpenStack's Swift v2.0 can now create storage containers with specific policies controlling their operation. OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing system: ...

San Francisco-based SwiftStack has announced the general availability of its private cloud storage product. The company’s software-defined storage (SDS) solution is based on the OpenStack Swift ...

Swift is implemented as an object store, distributed across multiple nodes in an OpenStack infrastructure, using commodity disk storage components such as hard-disk drives and solid-state disks.