Swift can integrate with OpenStack, but you can very easily run it stand alone, and many do. It has erasure coding, geo replication, and its a fairly well baked

Swift can integrate with OpenStack, but you can very easily run it stand alone, and many do. It has erasure coding, geo replication, and its a fairly well baked product. Here are good overviews: * http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ * https://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/ https://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-... And how Rackspace runs it at scale; * https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/session-videos/presentation/an-intimate-look-at-running-openstack-swift-at-scale https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-...