DataCore unveiled a new Swarm-based product

DataCore, a reference in SDS for 2 decades, joined the 45th IT Press Tour in Paris and unveiled a few hours in advance some interesting news regarding Swarm, its object storage solution. Dave Zabrowski, CEO of the company for almost 5 years, has announced its new vision, DataCore NEXT, valid for the next 3 years.

Essentially it's an extension of DataCore ONE with Edge Computing as a new key strategic component to offer a global model Core to Edge to Cloud.

Back to the announcement, Swarm has been verticalized to address M&E needs and named Perifery to align the solution to the edge. Clearly there is a growing need for storage and compute for data captured at the edge. This is well illustrated by a video shooting workflow operated on site and not in the data center or in the cloud. Data could be too large for migrate, process could not tolerate any delay so the right approach is to consider some intelligence at the edge with some advanced storage element and associated compute. The second vertical use cases targeted by DataCore is healthcare where edge devices exist everywhere. These 2 images below show perfectly this evolution.

As said a new version of Swarm is now available as a pure software model for the core and for the edge and appliance needs, DataCore has chosen a different delivery form with its software packaged and named Perifery.

This is marketed and promoted by Symply as SymplyPerifery to address M&E archiving challenges and needs. Symply has leveraged also some key partners to boost the solution, we find axledit for video editing, StorageDNA for data protection and Tiger Bridge to connect private and cloud entities with intelligent workflows.

DataCore confirms its object storage leadership with Swarm engine and we'l see how competition will react.