Swarm Appliance is a purpose-built object storage appliance for edge, ROBO, and small IT environments. It delivers secure, cyber-resilient S3-compatible storage to protect backups, keep archives local, and meet long-term retention requirements.
Built on proven Swarm object storage technology, the appliance is preconfigured and ready to run—so organizations can deploy reliable local object storage without the complexity of designing, integrating, and managing a custom solution. Hardware and software are fully integrated, validated, and supported as one system, making it ideal for locations with limited IT resources.
Why Choose Swarm Appliance for Your Environment
- Enables immutability and protect data and backups from ransomware, tampering, and deletion
- Ensures data integrity through cryptographic hashing and integrity seals
- Safeguards against drive failures with disk-level replication, erasure coding, and self-healing
- Secures data with encryption at rest and in transit
- Enforces granular access controls to limit unauthorized access
- Detects malicious content with built-in object-level malware scanning
- Serves as a trusted, validated S3 target for leading backup platforms including Commvault, Veritas, and Rubrik
- Supports long-term data retention without sacrificing accessibility
- Keeps archived data searchable and usable through metadata-driven indexing
- Enables direct access to retained data using standard S3 APIs
- Provides retention policies and governance controls to meet organizational requirements
- Preserves historical versions of data through object versioning
- Empowers users with a self-service portal for searching, retrieving, and sharing stored content
- Eliminates integration, sizing, and validation effort with a turnkey appliance
- Simplifies procurement and deployment through predefined configurations
- Reduces operational complexity with a single-vendor support model
- Consolidates storage, protection, backup targeting, and archiving into one platform
- Minimizes on-site IT involvement across distributed locations
- Delivers predictable, cost-efficient enterprise-grade storage without traditional complexity
Key Benefits
- Protect critical data from loss, corruption, and cyber threats
- Provide a secure local target for backups at edge locations, improving recovery confidence
- Archive data locally for long-term retention and governance needs
- Enable fast local access to archived data when it’s needed
- Simplify edge, ROBO, small IT deployments with a ready-to-run storage platform
- Lower total cost compared to building and managing custom solutions
- Operate edge storage easily and reliably with minimal on-site IT presence
- Standardize data protection across distributed locations
Licensing
Swarm Appliance is licensed as a complete, integrated solution based on the appliance’s usable capacity. Licensing is available in predefined tiers aligned with the appliance configurations—50 TB, 100 TB, and 150 TB usable capacity—ensuring a simple and predictable purchasing model.
Single-Vendor Support Model
Swarm Appliance is supported as a single, fully integrated appliance, with hardware and software covered under one support model. This eliminates multi-vendor coordination and simplifies troubleshooting and resolution. Support services provide clear escalation paths and consistent assistance throughout the system lifecycle.
Deployment
Swarm Appliance is delivered preconfigured and ready to run, eliminating the design, integration, and validation effort typically required to deploy object storage. Installation is straightforward: connect power and networking, complete initial setup, and begin ingesting data using standard S3 interfaces. This enables fast, consistent deployment across edge, ROBO, and small IT environments with minimal operational effort.
Available in three predefined models, the appliance provides predictable capacity and performance through fully integrated and validated configurations. This approach allows organizations to deploy reliable object storage quickly without specialized storage expertise or complex setup processes.
Swarm Appliance Models & Configurations
| Model | Small | Medium | Large |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 16C/32T @ 2.3 GHz | 32C/64T @ 2.9 GHz | |
| RAM | 256 GB | 512 GB | |
| Boot | 2 x 480 GB M.2 NVMe (RAID-1) | ||
| Storage, RAW | 80 TB | 160 TB | 240 TB |
| Storage Configuration | 10 x 8 TB | 10 x 16 TB | 12 x 20 TB |
| Usable Capacity (EC 4+2) | 50 TB | 100 TB | 150 TB |
| Metadata Cache | 2 x 1.92 TB Read-Intensive E3.S NVMe (RAID-1) | 2 x 3.84 TB Read-Intensive E3.S NVMe (RAID-1) | 2 x 7.68 TB Read-Intensive E3.S NVMe (RAID-1) |
| Network Interfaces | 2 x 10 GbE Base-T; 2 x 10/25 GbE SFP28 | ||
| PSU | 2 x 1500 W Dual, Fully Redundant (1+1), Hot-Plug | ||