Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Joe Arnold

We get a lot of inquiries from clients, potential clients, friends of the family, and strangers, particularly about cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).  Recently, we had someone ask us a series of questions about OpenStack Storage (Swift).  Given that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloudscaling, faq, iaas, infrastructure, OpenStack, S3, Storage, Swift | 3 Comments

Interacting with your Swift install

Posted on August 23, 2010 by caleb

Once you have swift services running, you are going to want to interact with them. (You can have them running in minutes if you want: swift-solo) Most of the currently available tools that interact with Rackspace’s Cloudfiles are hardcoded to that … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering | Tagged cyberduck, fog, OpenStack, Swift | Leave a comment

OpenStack: Swift Barn Raising

Posted on August 19, 2010 by andrew

At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged OpenStack, Swift | 2 Comments