Serving Evolving
Digital Media Workflows
At DataCore, we have been serving the media industry for over 15 years, delivering answers for the most challenging storage problems. We deliver the best solution for nearline archive, long-term content preservation, and content distribution.
Fast, secure, affordable, at any scale.
ECOSYSTEM


PURPOSE-BUILT TO MEET
THE DEMANDS OF THE INDUSTRY
Content Archive
Best of the Cloud
No Downsides
Media organizations who have been utilizing or are considering public cloud options to archive content may find DataCore Swarm a more cost-predictable storage option to meet their budget, preserve, protect, and monetize their valuable digital assets.
DataCore Swarm software is S3 cloud native and can be used as an in-facility nearline archive to help lower costs and complexity of maintaining less frequently accessed content on the primary on-line workspace or in the public cloud.
Swarm fits into your existing environment and is certified for use with popular media asset managers (MAM) and archive applications. MAM content searchability is enhanced with Swarm metadata awareness. Content is always on-line, searchable, and accessible. If content needs to move to or from the public cloud, Swarm makes it easy. This solution is simple and cost-effective to manage and can incrementally scale to support your growing content capacities. The highest levels of protection are built in to keep your content safe and secure for long-term preservation.
With Swarm’s migration in place technology, you are freed from costly and time-consuming archive refresh cycles, as well as hardware lock-in, egress fees, and tape or internet slowdowns. Offload content from primary storage or move content from the public cloud into Swarm cloud native in-facility archive.
Easy and Affordable Cloud Native In-Facility Archive.
- Lower Costs and Complexity. Move Content from Expensive Primary On-line Workspace or Public Cloud
- Seamless Integration with Existing Applications
- Fast Content Search and Access. Enhanced Metadata Awareness
- Highest levels of Security and Protection for Long-term Preservation
- Future-proof and Simple to Scale. No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
CHOOSE YOURS
Content Preservation
Protect Content Forever
Migrate in Place. No Forklift Upgrades.
Protecting and preserving content is critical for media organizations. The public and financial impact of rising ransomware attacks or the loss of any content can spell disaster to large and small businesses.
Swarm S3 cloud native in-facility archive delivers comprehensive security and long-term digital protection. It fits seamlessly into your existing environment and is certified with popular media asset managers, archive, and backup applications.
Content value for re-monetization and reuse is only assured when it’s kept safe. Swarm aggressively defends your content from ransomware and other cyber threats with the most advanced, proven multi-layered security, encryption in-flight and at-rest, immutability, WORM, and automated replication capabilities to ensure that internal or external parties never violate the integrity of your content. Swarm’s unique Elastic Content Protection combines automated management of replication that protects better than RAID, utilizing erasure coding with continuous integrity checks and fast volume recovery that recovers data not disks. Future-proof and secure, Swarm offers migration in place technology so you will never have to deal with costly and time-consuming archive refresh cycles again.
Easy and Affordable Cloud Native In-Facility Archive.
- Superior levels of Protection for Long-term Content Preservation
- Advanced Multi-layer Security to Protect Against Ransomware and Cyber Threats
- Automated Management of Replication Protection – Better than RAID
- Future-proof. Cost-effective to Manage and Scale
- No More Archive Refresh Cycles or Expensive Forklift Upgrades
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
CHOOSE YOURS
Content Distribution
Made to Stream
Fast Content Streaming at Any Scale
In this age of streaming media, consumers demand quality and reliable content delivery. Workflows are complex with multiple acquisition formats, multiple delivery options, and demanding timelines. Storage solutions must provide easy access, enterprise-level content protection to assure future monetization, and fast distribution of content to meet demands.
Natively accessible via HTTP/S3, Swarm is ideal for content delivery origin storage, long-tail delivery and enabling over-the-top (OTT) services. Swarm delivers massive throughput using multi-part parallel uploads for accelerated content ingestion and concurrent range reads for fast content delivery. Metadata awareness, and an easy web-based portal provides fast access to all media and video footage for sharing and distribution. Partial file restore speeds access to large video clips and fast content delivery with OTT enablement.
Swarm delivers reliable performance and multi-petabyte scalability to support multi-stream delivery with no hardware lock-in or hidden fees. Content is secure for the long-term with the highest level of protection and resilience built in.
Easy and Affordable Cloud Native In-Facility Archive.
- Ideal for Content Delivery Origin Storage, Long-tail Delivery and Enabling Over-the-Top (OTT) Services
- Fast Content Delivery using Multi-part Parallel Uploads
- Web-based Portal for Easy Access to all Media and Video Footage
- Multi-Petabyte Scalability to Support Massive Content Growth
- Superior levels of Protection for Long-term Preservation of Valuable Assets
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
CHOOSE YOURS
Content Storage Solutions
Sports Media
Winning Archive for Sports Media
Fast, Secure, Affordable. At Any Scale.
The demanding and rapidly evolving sports media industry needs to ensure that new and legacy content is always available when needed for the creation and delivery of stories and footage quickly to their hungry fan base. Secure, cost-effective, long-term protection of these assets is paramount for continued monetization.
DataCore Swarm software was built with your business in mind providing fast S3 content storage, retrieval, and advanced partial file restore to make working with high-resolution sport content easy. Swarm fits into your existing environment and is certified for use with popular media and archive applications. MAM content searchability is enhanced with Swarm metadata awareness. An easy web-based portal allows access to all media and video footage for sharing and distribution. If content needs to move to or from the public cloud, Swarm makes it easy.
Future-proof, resilient and secure, Swarm provides solid multi-layered security to keep your content safe and protected for future monetization. It is simple and very cost-effective to manage and scale to support performance and multi-petabyte content capacities. Swarm offers migration in place technology so you will never have to deal with costly and time-consuming archive refresh cycles again. With this Winning Archive there is no hardware lock-in, no fees, and no tape or internet slowdowns.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility archive.
- Streamline Workflows with Fast S3 Content Storage
- Seamless Integration with Existing Infrastructure and Applications
- Built-in Multi-level Layers of Security and Protection
- Multi-Petabyte Scalability to Support for Massive Content Growth
- No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
Broadcast
Streamline Workflow Complexity
Fast, Secure, Affordable Nearline Archive.
Broadcast’s massive and ever-growing media content from various contributors around the world needs reliable and cost-effective storage to keep it accessible, yet safe and preserved for future monetization.
DataCore Swarm software delivers an S3 cloud native in-facility nearline archive that helps lower costs and complexity of maintaining less frequently accessed content on the primary on-line workspace. Swarm integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and is certified with popular media asset managers. Once content is offloaded from primary storage, Swarm nearline archive keeps it online and easily accessible anywhere and anytime using a powerful web-based search tool and enhanced metadata awareness.
Swarm migration in place technology allows you to add capacity as needed as your content libraries expand, with little or no administration costs. This eliminates time-consuming archive refresh cycles. Resilience, multi-layer security, and long-term digital content protection are built-in, so your content is safe. More cost-effective than public cloud and more accessible than tape, Swarm nearline archive is perfect for your large media libraries.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility nearline archive.
- Lower Costs and Complexity. Offload Content from Expensive Primary Storage
- Fast and Secure Content Search and Access
- Multi-layer Security Protects Content
- Highest levels of Protection for Long-term Preservation
- No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
Studios
Award-Winning Studio Archive
Fast, Secure, Affordable. At Any Scale.
Production studios create and reuse massive amounts of content that needs to be quickly and easily accessible and cost-effectively preserved for the long term.
DataCore Swarm software delivers a cloud native in-facility archive that integrates seamlessly into your existing infrastructure and is certified with popular media asset managers. Content search and access is fast and secure no matter the size of the files or number of creative collaborators. If content needs to be moved to or from public cloud, Swarm makes it easy.
The highest levels of content protection are built-in with Swarm’s simple, cost-predictable scalable infrastructure. Supporting future performance and capacity growth is worry-free, as Swarm enables migration in place technology to end expensive refresh cycles and simplifies administration and cost. Creative organizations can focus on growing their business without having to grow their budgets.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility archive.
- Seamless Integration with Existing Infrastructure and Applications
- Fast and Secure Content Search and Access.
- Highest Levels of Security and Protection Keep your Valuable Content Safe.
- Cost-effective Performance and Scalability with migration in-place technology.
- Effortless Scalability. No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
VFX / Esports
Be on Top of your Game
Best of the Cloud. No Downsides.
The Esports industry has been exploding. Content is pouring rapidly into archives. Organizations who have been utilizing or are considering public cloud options for long-term preservation of valuable media assets are looking for more cost-predictable storage options to preserve, protect, access, and distribute video footage.
DataCore Swarm S3 cloud native, in-facility archive is a simple, massively scalable solution to centralize and distribute esports content. Natively accessible via HTTP/S3, Swarm is ideal for content delivery origin storage, long-tail delivery and enabling over-the-top (OTT) services. Swarm delivers massive throughput using multi-part parallel uploads for accelerated content ingestion and concurrent range reads for fast content delivery. With Swarm, content is always online, searchable, and accessible. The solution includes built-in streaming, content management with an easy web-portal, and partial file restore, to make working with massive amounts of esports content and video easy. Also, if content needs to be moved to and from the cloud, Swarm makes it easy.
Flexible and cost-effective, Swarm offers multi-site deployment options, and built-in security and data protection to keep your content preserved for the long term to assure future monetization. Public cloud has its place, but maybe not the place for valuable archived content that is frequently accessed and distributed.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility archive.
- Centralize and Distribute VFX/Esports Content
- Search and Access Always Online Content to Speed Workflows
- Highest levels of Security and Protection to Assure Content Monetization
- Future-proof and Massively Scalable to Multi-Petabytes
- Built-in Streaming and Fast Content Delivery
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
Corporate Video
Corporate Video Archive and Delivery
Fast, Secure, Affordable. At Any Scale.
In-house creative and corporate organizations face similar challenges as professional studios, using many of the same applications used by large film studios and media production companies to support their creative workflows and archive valuable content. These organizations need storage solutions that will cost-effectively manage and protect their ever-growing video files and support content delivery.
Swarm content archive meets the needs of today’s corporate video protection and distribution, providing a modern solution that offers limitless scalability to manage and preserve rapidly expanding capacities. Our solution fits into existing infrastructures and is certified with popular media asset managers. We provide our corporate customers with the same tools professional studios use, such as S3 / HTTP web portal for content sharing and distribution, partial file restore to speed access to large video clips and fast content delivery with Over-the-top (OTT) enablement. Best of all, our solution fits your budget as you scale into the future with its migration in place technology, so you will never have to deal with costly and time-consuming archive refresh cycles again.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility archive.
- Seamless Integration with Existing Infrastructure and Applications
- Fast and secure content search and access.
- Highest levels of Security and Protection keep your valuable content safe
- Cost-effective scalability with migration in place technology.
- No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
House of Worship
Share and Preserve your Message Forever
Archive. Preserve. Distribute.
Delivering your message to your communities and beyond is essential to growing a thriving community and congregation. Video capture, production, and distribution helps you fulfill your spiritual mission by bringing services, special events, and speakers to those that cannot attend, and to new local, national or global audiences. These valuable videos need to be safely preserved so they can be accessed and viewed again or repurposed to create new content in years to come.
DataCore Swarm software makes it easy for you to meet your continuous production and delivery challenges, by providing a simple, affordable, cloud native on-premise storage solution that keeps ever-growing content archives secure forever and your message streaming. Swarm is easy to use and fits right into existing environments. It is certified with popular media asset managers and creative applications so your teams can get right to work. Content is always on-line, searchable, and accessible for sharing and distribution. Also, if content needs to move to or from the public cloud, Swarm makes it easy.
With Swarm, you can start with terabytes and effortlessly scale to multi-petabytes using migrate-in-place technology. This reduces administrative costs and eliminates expensive archive refresh cycles. Your content is kept safe from accidental or malicious interference with multi-layered security, and it is protected and preserved for the long-term, on-premises, and with automated replication, to another site. With DataCore Swarm reliable storage solution, you can spend your time producing media to grow your community, instead of adding resources to manage your content archive.
Easy and affordable cloud native in-facility archive.
- Seamless Integration with Existing Infrastructure and Applications
- Fast and Secure Content Search and Access.
- Highest Levels of Security and Protection Keep your Valuable Content Safe.
- Cost-effective scalability with Migration in place Technology
- No More Expensive Archive Refresh Cycles
- Award-winning Global Support
- INCLUDED: Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro
Choose the Best Solution
to Meet your Needs
Software Only
Utilizes standard x86 hardware to allow the flexibility to use server/disk from vendor of your choice
- Fast S3 Content Storage Delivers Seamless Integration with Existing Workflow and Applications
- Simple Cost-predictable Scalability
- No More Expensive Refresh Cycles or Forklift Upgrades
- Lower Costs and Complexity
- Offload Content from Expensive Online Storage or Public Cloud
- Enhanced Metadata Awareness for Faster Content Search and Access
- Advanced Multi-layer Security and Multi-Tenant capabilities
Media Archive Appliances and Edge Devices
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DataCore For Media & Entertainment
DataCore Software is dedicated to delivering world-class solutions to the most challenging storage problems. For over 15 years, the most demanding media and entertainment organizations count on Swarm to preserve and protect their petabytes of high-resolution content daily.
Fast, secure, affordable, at any scale, media professionals monetize faster with DataCore Swarm.