October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 51m
English
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A Swift Afterword
Thanks for spending some time with OpenStack Swift. We hope it’s been helpful and informative. Before wrapping up, we wish you all the best in your work with Swift, and invite your feedback.
To close, we’d like to reflect on some of our recent experiences working with Swift and try to look ahead. Much of this will echo what we’ve been saying throughout the book, but we hope that this will reassure you that by choosing Swift you’re positioning yourself—and your organization—on the right side of history (at least as far as object storage goes).
Over the past few years, we’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of architects, operators, and deployers of private cloud-storage infrastructure. We observed three noteworthy trends: (1) a pervasive transition to object-based storage, (2) a strong desire to use open source software, and (3) the adoption of OpenStack Swift as the standard for object storage.
The Transition to Object Storage
In 2013, adoption of public object-storage services continued at an ever-accelerating rate. In April, Amazon announced that 1 trillion objects had been uploaded to S3 in the prior 10 months. For a bit of context, it took six years for the first 1 trillion objects to be uploaded. By some estimates, S3 generated several hundred millions of dollars of revenue for Amazon in 2013—and grew over 100% annually. HP, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Oracle also grew or launched their public object-storage offerings.
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