<html><body><p>We are pleased to announce that the SwiftHLM (Swift High Latency Media) middleware is now available on github:<br><a href="https://github.com/ibm-research/SwiftHLM">https://github.com/ibm-research/SwiftHLM</a><br><br>Purpose of that Swift middleware is to enable Swift to operate gracefully on top of high latency media (HLM) storage backends, such as tape or optical disk.<br><br>For an overview presentation, please see the following Tokyo summit vBrownBag TechTalk video and slides:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/6nWMRCKBs-o">https://youtu.be/6nWMRCKBs-o</a><br><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/hseipp/adapting-swift-for-tape-storage-or-other-highlatency-media">http://www.slideshare.net/hseipp/adapting-swift-for-tape-storage-or-other-highlatency-media</a><br><br>For technical details, please refer to the following Wiki page:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift/HighLatencyMedia">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift/HighLatencyMedia</a><br><br><br>Slavisa Sarafijanovic, IBM Research<br>Harald Seipp, IBM Systems<BR>
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