Chapter 10. Additional Resources
Having acquired the know-how on building, managing, and tuning OpenStack clusters by reading the preceding chapters, you are now ready to join the global elite group of OpenStack Swift experts and take your career to the next level. Let's now explore a few use cases of OpenStack Swift and get pointers to useful resources.
Use cases
There are five major use cases for OpenStack Swift:
- Archival
- Backup
- Content repository
- Collaboration
- Data lakes
The first three use cases cut capital and operational costs, while the last two use cases improve the business outcome.
Archival
The default answer for archival has been tapes. However, the availability of data on tapes is poor, from minutes to days. For data that needs to be made available ...
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