Learn how to gain maximum benefit from Swift, the highly available, distributed, object/blob store for OpenStack. Written by members of the team who maintain Swift, this practical book gets system administrators up to speed on Swift's use and administration, and includes advanced topics. Swift promises flexibility and robustness in data storage for virtual environments. This book helps get the most from its features so you can squeeze out the performance you need in OpenStack storage.

Author Biography

Joe Arnold is co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, a leading provider of object storage software. He built one of the first widely-used cloud platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) on top of Amazon Web Services at Engine Yard, managed the first public OpenStack launch of Swift after its release as an open source project. He has subsequently deployed multiple large-scale cloud storage systems. While at Engine Yard, he additionally oversaw the development of their Ruby on Rails deployment platform, AppCloud and managing the open source efforts of Rails 3, JRuby and Rubinius.