VeriStor Integrates SwiftStack Object Storage

February 10, 2016

By Bio-IT World Staff

February 10, 2016 | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.

The customer adoption of object storage is rising with IDC predicting that it will be a $28.3 billion market by 2018.  Driving this growth is an overwhelming desire among businesses for a software-centric approach to storage, one that offers the cost-effective scalability of the cloud and avoids vendor and hardware lock-in.

 VeriStor is adding SwiftStack in response to an increasing need from its medium to large enterprise customers for greater storage agility and efficiency, the company said in a press release. SwiftStack is built on an open source engine and released version 3.0 of its software in October. The open storage product will provide VeriStor customers with software-based enterprise-ready storage that delivers simplicity, pay-as-you-grow licensing and massive scale independent of hardware, the company said.

“One of the biggest challenges we’re seeing is the ability for customers to effectively manage both application growth and petabytes of data,” said Don Jaworski, CEO of SwiftStack, in the announcement. “With this new partnership, VeriStor will be able to offer their customers infrastructure for data protection across multiple sites. Especially considering VeriStor’s strong relationship with Commvault, the ability to offer Commvault’s data and information management paired with SwiftStack as software-defined storage for backup data presents customers with an extremely valuable package.”

“We take pride in the fact that our customers receive the best software solutions and services possible, and adding SwiftStack to our portfolio of offerings was an easy decision to make,” added Ashby Lincoln, President and CEO Of VeriStor. “SwiftStack’s Object Storage software allows us to help our customers effectively overcome diverse storage demands, simplifying their management approach in the process.”

Editor’s Note: Joe Arnold, SwiftStack President and Chief Product Officer, will be presenting on Object Storage at the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, April 5-7, in Boston.