12 Facts About OpenStack Swift

OpenStack Swift began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA.

OpenStack Swift became available in Debian Sid from the Openstack "Cactus" release in 2011, and the first release of Debian including OpenStack Swift was Debian 7.

OpenStack Swift organization has grown rapidly and is supported by more than 540 companies.

OpenStack Swift has a modular architecture with various code names for its components.

OpenStack Swift is ideal for storing unstructured data that can grow without bound.

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OpenStack Swift Telemetry provides a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack Swift components.

OpenStack Swift Shared File System provides an open API to manage shares in a vendor agnostic framework.

OpenStack Swift is governed by the OpenInfra foundation and its board of directors.

An OpenStack Swift Appliance is the name given to software that can support the OpenStack Swift cloud computing platform on either physical devices such as servers or virtual machines or a combination of the two.

Large number of vendors offer OpenStack Swift solutions, meaning that an organization wishing to deploy the technology has a complex task inselecting the vendor offer that best matches its business requirements.

OpenStack Swift is a complex entity, and adopters face a range of challenges when trying to implement OpenStack Swift in an organisation.

OpenStack Swift is a suite of projects rather than a single product, and because each of the various applications needs to be configured tosuit the user's requirements, installation is complex and requires a range of complementary skill-sets for an optimum set-up.